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Analysis (5767 words) |
 | It is the aim of this article to indicate something of the range of conceptions of analysis in the history of philosophy and their interconnections, and to provide a bibliographical resource for those wishing to explore analytic methodologies and the philosophical issues that they raise. |
| Analysis came to be seen as a method of discovery, working back from what is ordinarily known to the underlying reasons (demonstrating ‘the fact’), and synthesis as a method of proof, working forwards again from what is discovered to what needed explanation (demonstrating ‘the reason why’). |
| Initial research on conceptions of analysis in the history of philosophy was undertaken whilst a Research Fellow at the Institut für Philosophie of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg during 1999-2000, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. |
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