separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles; "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind"
of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition" expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection using or skilled in using analysis i
of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"
expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection using or skilled in using analysis i