analytic, analytical -- (using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles); "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind")
analytic, analytical -- (of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition")
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