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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

12997	Analysis is the art of finding the middle term [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: The art of finding intermediate terms (the 'middle term') is the art of 'analysis'.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 4.02)
	A reaction: This proposal is straight out of Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics'. Nowadays we would say there was much more to analysis, the finding of necessary and sufficient conditions being the most obvious way of putting it.