> But trying to use analogies to make up new information is over-intellectualizing - rarely a wise thing to do. Is it? It seems like analogies can often point

> But trying to use analogies to make up new information is over-intellectualizing - rarely a wise thing to do. Is it? It seems like analogies can often point into the right direction to look at. Of course analogies are not sufficient and you do need to do the actual empirical work, but it also seems a bit unwise to discard their ability to detect similarities. The only reason you can make a good analogy is because there is an underlying shared abstraction .