Analysis and Synthesis

These two modes of thinking have echoes all over the place.

John Boyd’s Creation and Destruction talks about it in the context of mental models.

The Nataraja form is about creation and destruction. I read somewhere (possibly Devdutt Pattnaik) interpreting the axe and rope of Ganesha as analysis and synthesis.

Socrates says this is Phaedrus: “Now I myself, Phaedrus, am a lover of these processes of division_ and _bringing together, as aids to speech and thought; and if I think any other man is able to see things that can naturally be collected into one and divided into many, him I follow after and ‘walk in his footsteps as if he were a god.’”