Jones Beene wrote: > >> Analysis - what does that word mean? > > Would it be mean... (or just average) to say this article leads > one to the conclusion that 'analysis' requires a rather 'anal' > predisposition? > > <G> >
;-) Not necessarily. At the site it says this: "The word analysis¹ derives from the ancient Greek term analusis¹. The prefix ana¹ means up¹, and lusis¹ means loosing¹, release¹ or separation¹, so that analusis¹ means loosening up¹ or dissolution¹. The term was readily extended to the solving or dissolving of a problem, and it was in this sense that it was employed in ancient Greek geometry and philosophy." Harry
