 While it may be the case that different considerations can give rise to an epistemological problem concerning other minds, on the whole what appears to have pre-occupied philosophers in the period under consideration (mid-twentieth century) was the question of solipsism, the question of whether I am alone in the universe. While it is often accepted that I cannot be certain that I am not alone, it is thought that it can be shown that we have good reason to believe that the others I encounter are like me in having thoughts and feelings. One form of reasoning has been taken to be “traditional” in this connection: the argument from analogy (Blackburn 1994). Analogical reasoning cites similarities between two things and uses this as support for concluding that further similarities may be taken to exist. Like all forms of inferential reasoning, analogical reasoning is employed in order to expand knowledge in the face of uncertainty (Bartha 2016).