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Abdolkarim Soroush regards poetic analogies as subjective and constructed matters that should not serve as the basis for serious inferences. Drawing on the example of Rudaki and Toynbee's critique of Spengler, he shows how reliance on unfounded analogies can unravel entire theories.
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