Full Idea
An analysis is an attempt at providing finite, non-circular, and intuitively adequate necessary and sufficient conditions.
Gist of Idea
Analysis aims at secure necessary and sufficient conditions
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (Causation and Laws of Nature [2008], 3)
Book Reference
'Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics', ed/tr. Sider/Hawthorne/Zimmerman [Blackwell 2008], p.86
A Reaction
Specifying the 'conditions' for something doesn't seem to quite add up to telling you what the thing is. A trivial side-effect might qualify as a sufficient condition for something, if it always happens.