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Anam or Annam an empire of Farther India. The statements of its extent and population greatly differ. The latter amounts, according to the report of the missionaries, to more than twenty millions, while many geographers give to all Farther India not more than fifteen millions. It is divided into four different realms: Tonkin, Cochin China, … Continue reading “Anam or Annam”

Analyticity See Meaning, Kinds of; Truth, semantical; Valid. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Analytical Jurisprudence Theory of Austin, Markby, Holland, Salmond, etc., considering jurisprudence the formal science of positive law. Its main task is to analyze the necessary notions of law. Term coined by Henry Summer Maine. — W.E. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Analytic, Transcendental In KantThe section of the Critique of Pure Reason which deals with the concepts and principles of the understanding. Its main purpose is the proof of the categories within the realm of phenomena. — A.C.E. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Analytic Judgment (Ger. analytisches Urteil) In KantA judgment in which the predicate concept is included within the subject concept, as analysis should or does disclose. Such a judgment does not require verification by experience; its sole criterion is the law of contradiction. (See Kantianism.) — O.F.K. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Analytic (Gr. analytike) Aristotle’s name for the technique of logical analysis. The Prior Analytics contains his analysis of the syllogism, the Posterior Analytics his analysis of the conditions of scientific or demonstrable knowledge. — G.R.M. In Kant. One of two divisions of general logic (the other being Dialectic) which discovers by analysis all the functions … Continue reading “Analytic”

Analysis, intentional (Ger. intentionale Analyse) In HusserlExplication and clarification of the essential structure of actual and potential (horizonal) synthesis by virtue of which objects are Intentionally constituted. As noematic, intentional analysis discovers, explicates, and clarifies, the focally and horizontally intended objective sense (and the latter’s quasi-objective substrates) in its manners of givenness, posltedness, etc., and … Continue reading “Analysis, intentional”

Analysis (mathematical) The theory of real numbers, of complex numbers, and of functions of real and complex numbers. See number; continuity; limit. — A. C. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Analysis Analysis (ana=”up” or “back”, and lyein, “to loose”) means a separation; it is the taking apart of that which was united, and corresponds exactly to the Latin form “resolution” (re + solvere). Its opposite is synthesis (syn, “together”, and tithenai, “to put”, hence, a “putting-together”, a “composition”). According to this etymology, analysis, in general, … Continue reading “Analysis”

Analogy of Pythagoras (Gr. analogia) The equality of ratios, or proportion, between the lengths of the strings producing the consonant notes of the musical scale. The discovery of these ratios is credited to Pythagoras, who is also said to have applied the principle of mathematical proportion to the other arts, and hence to have discovered, … Continue reading “Analogy of Pythagoras”