All 9 Uses of
analysis
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.†
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- Deprived of ordinary resources, the analyst throws himself into the spirit of his opponent, identifies himself therewith, and not unfrequently sees thus, at a glance, the sole methods (sometime indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation.†
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- But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill of the analyst is evinced.†
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- 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.†
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- I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth.†
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- The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.†
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- The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of its retrograde operations, has been called, as if par excellence, analysis.†
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- Beyond doubt there is nothing of a similar nature so greatly tasking the faculty of analysis.†
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- 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.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(analysis as in: analysis of relevant data) the process or result of examining and thinking about something to better understand it
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(2)
(analysis as in: psychiatrist suggested analysis) psychiatric treatment -- (using any of many theories of the human mind that use talk therapy to understand the unconscious mind)