Evaluate each of the following arguments by analogy, indicating (1) the things (instances) being compared, (2) the relevant similarities mentioned or implied, (3) whether diversity among multiple cases is a significant factor, (4) the conclusion, and (5) whether the argument is strong or weak.
1. "As for one who is choosy about what he learns... we shall not call him a lover of learning or a philosopher, just as we shall say that a man who is difficult about his food is hungry or has an appetite for food. We shall not call him a lover of food but a poor eater... But we shall call a philosopher the man who is easily willing to learn every kind of knowledge, gladly turns to learn things and is insatiable in this respect."
2. Let us begin with a parable [showing that statements about God have no meaning]... Once upon a time, two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, 'Some gardener must tend this plot.' The other disagrees, 'There is no gardener.' So they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. 'But perhaps he is an invisible gardener.' So they set up a barbed-wire fence. They electrify it... But no shrieks ever suggest that some intruder has received a shock. No movements of the wire ever betray an invisible climber... Yet still, the Believer is not convinced. 'But there is a gardener, invisible, intangible, insensible.'... At last, the Skeptic despairs, 'But what remains of your original assertion? Just how does what you call an invisible, intangible eternally elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener or even from no gardener at all?'"
3. The casinos in Atlantic City have brought a tremendous amount of revenue into both area businesses and local government, without inviting the evils of organized crime and causing the degradation of law and order or quality of life. The same can be said for the Turning Stone casino in upstate New York, as well as for Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls, Canada. A casino built in Buffalo, New York, will provide all the same benefits without the disadvantages.