 According to Pargetter, the argument from best explanation is able to bypass all criticisms standardly brought to bear against the argument from analogy, as it relies solely on the explanatory power of the proposed hypothesis—in this case, that others have minds. This form of reasoning is also held to be superior to reasoning from analogy as it can be used to establish the existence of minds in individuals of other species whose behavior may not be similar to mine or who think and feel in ways that are dissimilar to the way that I think and feel. It may also be used to justify the belief in minds of (abnormal) humans who may either behave very differently or think and feel very differently from their conspecifics.