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Grosseteste's method is primarily dialectical; its aim is the discovery of a definition, a generalized verbal characterization, and it is perhaps not surprising that he discusses composition before taking up resolution, for in certain sciences (notably mathematics) the syn - thetic or compositive method is all that seems to be needed in most cases.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

To dis - cover the causes, one must first proceed a posteriori, inferring causes from effects, i.e., using first the method of resolution or analysis; then the demonstrative or compositive method can be used to develop the conse - quences.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

He envisaged the use of the resoluto-compositive method of Galileo to erect

BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

He thought that Copernicus and Galileo had revealed the method for investigating the natural world, that Harvey had applied this to the study of the body, and that he, Hobbes, was showing how this method, the resoluto-compositive method of Galileo, could be applied to psychology and politics.

BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

Teutonic, Greek, and Latin elements, while the German tongue unfolds all the varieties of the same idea by a series of compositive words founded upon one Gothic root.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

NYC's Agora gallery is showing the marvellous junk-tech sculptures of Italy's Franco Recchia: he approaches each subject with that sense of innocent amazement, instinctively following a compositive and rigorous logic until each piece is laid in its correct place.

Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2010

As the Logistics extended services compositive merchant in the east of China, the enterprise provides a variety of services, such as container transport agency, container stack and warehouse logistics and the integrated value-added service.

Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

“resolutive-compositive” method elaborated in the opening sections of the Leviathan (Lukes 1968, 119).

Methodological Individualism Heath, Joseph 2009

I am sorry to say that a pestilent stricture of the imagination, or rather, of the compositive faculty so constrains me that I have not yet finished the poem I have been writing with regard to the discovery and service of this beast. "

On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911