, or Analytical, something belonging to, or partaking of, the nature of analysis; or performed by the method of analysis.
Thus we say analytical demonstration, analytical enquiry, analytical table or scheme, analytical method, &c. The analytical stands opposed to the synthetical, or that which proceeds by the way of synthesis.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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