analytic

IPA: ænʌɫˈɪtɪk

adjective

  • Of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.
  • Of, or relating to division into elements or principles.
  • Having the ability to analyse.
  • (logic, of a proposition) that follows necessarily; tautologous.
  • (mathematics) Of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis.
  • (mathematical analysis) Being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives.
  • (mathematics, of a function) Being able to be locally represented by convergent power series around every point of the domain.
  • (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the arrangement of uninflected words within sentences to indicate meaning. Compare synthetic.
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Examples of "analytic" in Sentences

  • And the DNI has created something called analytic space, or A space, for short.
  • I think there’s quite a lot of room for foundational criticism in analytic philosophy.
  • I do not mean to imply that prior to the written word analytic thought was not possible.
  • Several different senses of the word analytic are thus conflated in the designation analytic number theory
  • In order to explore these questions we must at least separate the clearly analytic from the synthetic propositions.
  • The goal is to provide a general-purpose platform that can allow any number of so-called analytic tools to sift the structured data for patterns and trends.
  • In particular, Professor Dyson concludes that I believe that only research which "reduces complicated phenomena to their simpler component parts," what he calls analytic science, "is worthy of the name of science."
  • I am by no means well-read enough in analytic philosophy to assess these posts in technical terms, although I do think I know enough to follow along and perhaps make a few comments from a purely literary perspective.
  • One thing that particularly bothers me is that the terms analytic philosophers usually use in their analyses -- intuition, proposition, property, sortal, etc. -- are in fact far more vague and ambiguous than the things they are usually analyzing.

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