analysandumn.
/əˌnalᵻˈzandəm/, U.S. /əˌnæləˈzændəm/ Philosophy.
That which is to be, or is being, analysed; (in more recent use esp.) a concept, proposition, or expression regarded as in need of definition or logical analysis. Compare analysans n.
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analysans1942
1885 S. H. Hodgson Philos. & Exper. 46 The de facto connection of parts in historical order, which is part of the process or growth of the panorama, is as essential a constituent of the analysandum, as either the logical and generalised connection of parts,..or the specific content and quality of any part or group of parts which it embraces.
1912 Mind 21 476 Ordinary common sense experience is the analysandum of metaphysics.
1932 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 33 77 The kind of analysis that is possible..depends upon the kind of combination, or complex, which the analysandum is.
1942 C. H. Langford in P. A. Schilpp Philos. G.E. Moore ii. xii. 323 The paradox of analysis is,..if the verbal expression representing the analysandum has the same meaning as the verbal expression representing the analysans, the analysis states a bare identity and is trivial; but if the two verbal expressions do not have the same meaning, the analysis is incorrect.
1978 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 38 234 Oaklander argues that this analysis fails because its analysandum and analysans have different truth conditions.
2001 B. Hutchinson G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory i. 31 An analysis states that an identity obtains between the object denoted by the analysandum and the object denoted by the analysans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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