12) Descartes, Rene. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist who is considered the father of analytic geometry and the founder of modern rationalism. His main works, Meditations...

13) Jespersen, Otto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (in parts, 1909-31), Language (1922), Philosophy of Grammar (1924), and Analytic Syntax (1937)....

14) chemical fingerprint. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A unique pattern indicating the presence of a particular molecule, based on specialized analytic techniques such as mass- or x-ray-spectroscopy, used to identify...

15) Russell, Bertrand Arthur William. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...writer who had a profound influence on the development of symbolic logic and 20th-century analytic philosophy. His numerous written works include Principia Mathematica...

16) Hegelianism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...of Hegel in which the dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is used as an analytic tool in order to approach a higher unity or a new thesis. He·geli·an -ADJECTIVE...

17) Austin, John Langshaw. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...also at Oxford. He strongly influenced analytic philosophy, urging that the use of words be closely examined and holding that the distinctions of ordinary language...

18) §8. Results of loss of inflections. XX. The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...this date, however, to produce certain marked effects. What had once been a synthetic language had now become analytic, and it was in process of developing its expression...

19) Quine, W. V. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...work deals with the implications of viewing language as a logical system. He disputed the distinction, originating in Immanuel Kant, between analytic and synthetic...

20) grammar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...are classified according to the degree of synthesis, or the number of morphemes per word. Analytic languages, such as Chinese, have only one morpheme per word, while...