Synthesis - Humanities

Humanities

  • in philosophy, the end result of a dialectic, as in thesis, antithesis, synthesis
  • a cognitive skill in Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
  • In philosophy and science, a higher a priori process than analysis
  • in linguistics, a scale denoting the average ratio of morphemes to words; see synthetic language

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