When ever we relate ideas, it is usually based upon an aesthetic semblance -- a 'nostalgia for the unity' of these disparate ideas, instances, and the ideas and signs used to describe those instances.
So often analogy is a function of aesthetic preference. But aesthetics depend upon character. How we fill in the details depends upon the quality of the imagination in individuals. And a sadistic individual, for instance, is invariably drawn to different aesthetics than is an asadistic individual.
Dm.
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