analytical

Adjective
  1. Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) (synset 300113042)
    "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind"
    same as: analytic
  2. Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience (synset 300111664)
    "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition"
    also:
    • a priori - involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
    • deductive - involving inferences from general principles
    • logical - capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
    referred to in: logic - the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
    same as: analytic

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