Analogist

those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament

The analogist does not think that a bee, a flower and a human are the same in body nor in soul, but presupposes that all of them are affected by processes that are not only external to them, but frame and enable their possibilities of daily experience.

This kind of practice, together with its extension in Chinese cosmology to everything from bodily organs to emotions to animal kinds to colours to flavours to kin relations to positions in the overall social hierarchy, suggests for Descola that the world is perceived by analogists as fundamentally being made up of myriad ontological singularities, defined in terms of discontinuities on the level of both physicality and interiority.

This is what characterises his 'analogist' mode, and indeed, he takes China as a paradigmatic example of an analogist society,

The analogist disposition treats difference not just as a demagogic commitment to "democratic diversity," but as a true metaphysical condition of things that needs to be a relevant factor for any epistemically virtuous philosophy.