For this reason, when people disputed what the term “inferential reasoning” denotes, some held that syllogistic reasoning has a greater claim to this designation than analogical reasoning, as maintained by Ibn Hazm and a group of others; others held, conversely, that analogical reasoning has a greater claim to this designation than syllogistic reasoning, as maintained by Abū Hāmid, Abū Muhammad al-Maqdisī, and a group of others;