You can’t reason only from superficial similarities, but the hypothesis that similarities come from similar causal structure often happens to be true, so it has good chances a priori, unless you can also see the indication that causal structure is different, which is so in your examples. The error is in attributing the fundamental role to similarities and forging about everything else, but similarities also have their place.
You can’t reason only from superficial similarities, but the hypothesis that similarities come from similar causal structure often happens to be true, so it has good chances a priori, unless you can also see the indication that causal structure is different, which is so in your examples. The error is in attributing the fundamental role to similarities and forging about everything else, but similarities also have their place.