Analogisistas

Analogisistas are practitioners who study, construct, and apply analogies across disciplines to facilitate understanding, problem solving, and communication. The term is not widely standardized and appears primarily in informal or exploratory discussions rather than as a formal discipline.

Typical activities include analyzing how ideas in one domain can map to another, developing educational metaphors, and guiding design tasks that transfer insights from familiar contexts to novel problems. They may work in education, cognitive science, linguistics, or design thinking, often collaborating with educators, researchers, and practitioners.

The etymology is informal: it derives from analogía or analogy and the -ista suffix. In Spanish-language discourse, analogisistas are discussed as a way to frame analogy-based reasoning in both theory and pedagogy.

Criticism centers on the risk of overgeneralization and misapplication when analogies are pressed beyond their appropriate domain. Proponents emphasize disciplined mapping, explicit scope, and empirical evaluation of transfers between domains. Related concepts include analogy, metaphor, and analogical reasoning.