I don't think this is necessarily true. Analogies are useful to help build bridges when two parties have differing corpuses of knowledge. If I want to discuss

I don't think this is necessarily true. Analogies are useful to help build bridges when two parties have differing corpuses of knowledge. If I want to discuss the merits of different woods in cavaquinho construction with someone that's spent all of their life in an office, then it is almost always easier to work in an analogistic manner that spend hours upon hundreds of hours building up their knowledge. If it's a _debate_ with two parties trying to convince the other of a point, then analogies begin to fall short. You did say _conversation_ though. Not all conversations are debates.