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analytical
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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- The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.†
*analytical = relating to logical examination to improve understanding
- The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.†
- Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous.†
analytic = relating to logical examination of something to better understand it
- It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.†
- At such times I could not help remarking and admiring (although from his rich ideality I had been prepared to expect it) a peculiar analytic ability in Dupin.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(analytical) relating to logical and systematic examination of something to better understand it -- often implying some kind of quantitative analysis
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)