analytic

is the negative test of truth. It is that part of general logic that resolves the formal business of understanding and reason into its elements, and exhibits them as principles of all logical judging of our cogntions.

General logic, then, resolves the whole formal business of understanding and reason into its elements, and exhibits them as principles of all logical judging of our cognitions. This part of logic may, therefore, be called analytic, and is at least the negative test of truth, because all cognitions must first of an be estimated and tried according to these laws before we proceed to investigate them in respect of their content, in order to discover whether they contain positive truth in regard to their object. (kant CPR : 58)

analytic, n.All

analytic