{Analysis and Synthesis}[18th June 1988]

[Redbook5:170][19880618:0000]{Analysis and Synthesis}[18^th June 1988]

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*'The Rationalist philosophers of the 17^th and 18^th centuries believed … that the philosopher … must first break down complex concepts into their simple parts; this was a matter of analysis. Then (they) must proceed to show how knowledge of these simples [sic, ms] would serve to explain the detailed constitution of things; this would involve synthesis.'

{I think this was the first use of the Inner Circle from and to A~ (cf Star Cycles, IV? [[Redbook4:155][19871119:2312e]{Star Cycles (I) – Colours}[19^th November 1987], ff] …)}

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*ref E[ncyclopaedia ]B[ritannica] [(15^th Ed)] XXIV.[] Metaphysics

**{cf [[Redbook5:191-193][19880620:1040#]{Horizontal Contra-Rotation}[20^th June 1988],] p192 }

{See [[Redbook5:208][198708:1754]{Synthesis – Analysis}[8^th July 1988],] 208}

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