Hmmm Your thinking is retentive. My thinking is constipated.
;-) Harry Jones Beene wrote: > QED > > > > From: Harry Veeder > >>>> 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 Oanalysis¹ derives from the ancient Greek term >> Oanalusis¹. The >> prefix Oana¹ means Oup¹, and Olusis¹ means Oloosing¹, Orelease¹ >> or >> Oseparation¹, so that Oanalusis¹ means Oloosening up¹ or >> Odissolution¹. 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 >
