An Experimental Investigation of the Process of Analysis in Concept Formation
Abstract
The term analysis appears simple and clear enough to warrant its wide usage. We are continually admonished to "analyze" a situation before acting. Critics "analyze" doctrines and arguments. The chemist's chief work is "analysis." Suspicious folk, g., psychoanalysts, find satisfaction in "analyzing" what others say, or think, or dream. Such confident usage should indicate at least some consistency and clarity of thought behind that usage. And this appears to be so. For the term is used rather consistently in its etymological sense. Educators, logicians, chemists, when analyzing (ἀνά +λύω-to loose), always 'break-up', 'separate,' 'isolate,' 'unloosen,' something or other.
Subject Area
Psychology|Experimental psychology
Recommended Citation
Kubis, Joseph Francis, "An Experimental Investigation of the Process of Analysis in Concept Formation" (1935). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28960412.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28960412
