The most famous example of analogy qua purpose was by William Paley(3) "Just as a watch is a complex mechanism, having parts which co-operate so as to achieve a certain end, namely the measurement of time, so for example the eye is a highly complex system having parts which co-operate to provide information about its environment to the organism". ...

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