Analogism

1. n. Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.
2. n. an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.