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analytic, a. and n.|ænəˈlɪtɪk|
[ad. med.L. analytic-us, a. Gr. ἀναλυτικ-ός analytic, f. ἀνάλυτ-ος dissolved, dissolvable, f. ἀναλύ-ειν: see analysis. Cf. Fr. analytique, perhaps earlier.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with analysis; consisting in, or distinguished by, the resolution of compounds into their elements. esp. in Math. and Philos.: cf. analysis 7 and 9 a, b, c.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. i. Wks. 1616. 332 A direct, and analyticke summe Of all the worth and first effects of artes. 1724Watts Logic iv. i. (1813) 511 Natural method is..two-fold, viz. synthetic and analytic. Analytick method takes the whole compound as it finds it..and leads us into the knowledge of it by resolving it into its first principles. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 54 ⁋ 4 They are..understood without skill in analytick science. 1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. vi. §46 Of the several circumstances..to give some sort of analytic view. 1802Woodhouse in Phil. Trans. XCII. 95 In the present state of analytic science, there is no certain and direct method of integrating differential equations. 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic xxiv. (1866) II. 7 The words analytic and synthetic..are, like most of our logical terms, taken from Geometry. 1865Mill Exam. Hamilton xx. 405 Mr. Mansel expressly limits the province of Logic to analytic judgments—to such as are merely identical. 1870― in Fortnightly Rev. VIII. 123 Taine..in the case of the axioms of geometry,..classes them among ‘analytic propositions’—that is, truths latently included in the ideas which are the subject of them, to be proved by evolving them out of the ideas. 1902E. T. Whittaker Course Mod. Analysis iii. 47 If f (z) is an analytic function, regular at all points in the interior of a contour, then ∫ f (z)dz = o, where the integration is taken round the contour. 1936E. Nagel in Jrnl. Philos. XXXIII. 5 (title) Impressions and Appraisals of Analytic Philosophy in Europe. Ibid. 9 Analytic philosophy is ethically neutral formally. 1938Hardy & Wright Theory of Numbers p. v, Thus Chs. xii–xv belong to the ‘algebraic’ theory of numbers,..Ch. xxii to the ‘analytic’ theories. 1946Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic (ed. 2) iv. 78 A proposition is analytic when its validity depends solely on the definitions of the symbols it contains, and synthetic when its validity is determined by the facts of experience. Ibid., Analytic propositions are devoid of factual content. 1946Mind LV. 339, I do not think that either Prof. Moore or most of the other adherents of Contemporary British Analytic Philosophy are ready to draw the consequences from this fact. 1948Ibid. LVII. 292 Analytic philosophy consists at least partly, in replacing a concept, or a set of concepts, by another concept, or set of concepts. 1959G. & R. C. James Math. Dict. 11/1 (heading) Analytic continuation of an analytic function of a complex variable.
b. analytic psychology, the branch or school of psychology mainly based on the work of Locke, which endeavours to analyse ideas and trace them to their origins.
a1854Mill Draft Autobiog. (1961) 76 [= 1873 Autobiog. iii. 68] Under my father's direction my studies were carried into the higher branches of analytic psychology. 1889W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 311 The widely prevalent notion that analytic psychology has proved the space-perceptions of the eye to be but reproduced experiences of touch and locomotion.
c. Mus. analytic programme, a concert programme containing analyses (analysis 10) of the works performed.
1885G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 77 The analytic program..costs an additional shilling.
2. Concerned with, or addicted to the use of, analysis; analytical.
1805Wordsw. Prel. ii. (ed. 2) 40 A toil, Than analytic industry to me More pleasing. 1876Farrar Gk. Syntax 2 Few languages are more analytic than English. 1880Contemp. Rev. XXXVII. 480 Analytic education makes against the creative search of beauty, which defies analysis.
3. Short for psychoanalytic a.
1912A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Sel. Papers on Hysteria (ed. 2) viii. 178 The analytic therapy..concerns itself with the genesis of the morbid symptoms. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Mar. 148/2 Certain analytic terms (which they profess to avoid) such as ‘acting-out’.
B. n. mostly pl. analytics, transl. L. analytica, a. Gr. ἀναλυτικά, adj. pl. neut., used subst. by Aristotle as title of his treatises on Logic.
1. gen. ‘The science or doctrine and use of analysis.’ Chambers.
1641Hobbes Lett. Wks. 1845 VII. 462 A better philosopher in my opinion then De Cartes, and not inferior to him in the analytiques. 1857Sir J. Stephen Lect. Hist. France xvii. II. 154 Skill in the science of moral analytics.
2. spec.
a. That part of logic which treats of analysis.
c1590Marlowe Faustus i. 6 Live and die in Aristotle's works. Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou hast ravish'd me. 1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts (1673) 353 Aristotles first book of Analyticks. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 66 He was in Logick a great Critick, Profoundly skill'd in Analytick. (Annot. Analytique is a part of Logick that teaches to decline and construe Reason, as Grammar does Words.) 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic xii. (1866) I. 218 His [Aristotle's] Prior Analytics, the treatise in which he develops the general forms of reasoning. 1846(title) ibid. II. App. 251 A New Analytic of Logical Forms.
†b. The algebraical branches of pure mathematics; the application of algebra to geometry. Obs.
1656Hobbes Elem. Philos. (1839) 309, I should there have spoken of the analytics of geometricians. 1685Phil. Trans. XV. 1104 My design being to trace this of the Analyticks (as the Greeks call'd it) or Algebra (as the Arabs). 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., To the modern Analytics, principally, belongs algebra. |