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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"

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

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

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... the imagination of the little man, and have had all kinds of wonderful abilities ascribed to them by him. The giants and ogres of folk-lore and fairy tales are favored with the most extraordinary mental advantages. Direct and analytic acquaintance with the giants of our own day, as well as a probing of their conduct in the past, has shown that normal giants—persons of exceptional size free from physical or mental deformities—are rare. There are people with hyper-pituitarism who exhibit the highest mental ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... time there prevailed the analytic, painstaking, detailed and very considered drawing that is common to all periods preceding great constructive work. This technique admitted the use of two fundamental methods: one called double contour, ...

— Chinese Painters - A Critical Study • Raphael Petrucci

... several species descending from a common ancestor, has been closed to-day by the removal of the sharp limits that had been set up between species and varieties on the one hand, and species and genera on the other. I gave an analytic proof of this in my monograph on the sponges (1872), having made a very close study of variability in this small but highly instructive group, and shown the impossibility of making any dogmatic distinction of species. According as the classifier takes his ideas of genus, species, and variety in ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel

... lose the coldly analytic faculty that weighed all contingencies. The adventure still was critical; but the scales of success seemed lowering in favor of the Legion. The feel, in his breast pocket, of the leather sack containing Kaukab el Durri, which he had again taken possession of after the magic tests, ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... training given to the memory was stupefying; the strain that the memory endured was a form of torture; and the feats that the boys performed, without complaint, were pitiable. No other faculty than the memory seemed to be recognized. Least of all was any use made of reason, either analytic, synthetic, or dogmatic. The German ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

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