 Let me tentatively suggest that the following, relatively simple interpretation may have the greatest explanatory  value:[31]  “paralleling” (móu 侔) refers very generally to presenting a series of syntactically parallel utterances, one or more of which are used to argue by analogy that one or more others should be accepted. The formal similarity between the structure or phrasing of the utterances is supposed to lead us to also see an analogical relation between the things or situations described, such that if we accept some of the parallels, we should accept them all. The following is one example of paralleling: 