Read the passage below.

“It’s important that we make clear at this point what definition is and what can be obtained by means of it. It seems frequently to be credited with a creative power, but all it accomplishes is that something is marked out…and designated by a name. Just as the geographer does not create a sea when he draws boundary lines… so too the mathematician cannot really create anything by his defining.”

How does the author of this passage make an argument by analogy?

A
The author draws an analogy between a mathematician’s definitions and a geographer’s maps to make the point that both have a creative power.

B
The author draws an analogy between the images on a map and the words of a definition to make the point that both can be read and represent the world.

C
The author draws an analogy between a mathematician’s skill and a geographer’s knowledge to make the point that both require imagination.

D
The author draws an analogy between writing definitions in mathematics and making maps in geography to make the point that neither task is creative.