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Analytic

adjective

Using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus.

Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles). Synonym: analytical. "An analytic approach" , "A keenly analytic man" , "Analytical reasoning" , "An analytical mind" Antonym: synthetic.

Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection. Synonym: uninflected. Antonym: synthetic.

Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience. Synonym: analytical. Antonym: synthetic.

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"Analytic" Quotes from Famous Books

... manner, insists on dragging people out of the refuge of sonorous general terms, with a great public reputation of much too well-established a kind to be subjected to the affront of analysis. It is true that Rousseau himself contributed nothing directly to that analytic operation which Socrates likened to midwifery, and he set up graven images of his own in place of the idols which he destroyed. This, however, did not wholly efface the distinction, which he shares with all who have ever tried to lead the minds of men into new tracks, of refusing to accept ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... will I think be best to explain at setting out, as we easily may, in subjects familiar and material. I shall therefore examine the imaginative faculty in these three forms; first, as combining or associative; secondly, as analytic or penetrative; thirdly, ...

— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin

... the natural, simple and universal ways of acting and feeling in men and women who love as the finest subjects of the arts has always regenerated them whenever, in pursuit of the unnatural, the complicated, the analytic, and the sensational, they have fallen ...

— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke

... because all propositions are not affirmative that we require a copula at all. Moreover the awkwardness of expression just alluded to is a mere accident of language. In Latin we may say with equal propriety 'Sol orietur cras' or 'Sol est oriturus cras'; while past time may also be expressed in the analytic form in the case of deponent verbs, as 'Caesar est in Galliam profectus'—'Caesar is ...

— Deductive Logic • St. George Stock

... Brunn I shall stop by to talk to you. There is so much to say! I anticipate much of value from your detached and analytic mind. I confess, also, that I am curious about your research. This she-dog with psi powers, of which you give no account ...

— The Leader • William Fitzgerald Jenkins (AKA Murray Leinster)

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