Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other. Analysis, without a subsequent synthesis, is incomplete; it is a mean cut off from its end. Synthesis, without a previous analysis, is baseless; for synthesis receives from analysis the elements which it recomposes
Sir William Hamilton, Ninth Baronet, “Sixth Lecture on Metaphysics” in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (1871), p. 69.
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