the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently
unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
endowed with the capacity to reason
expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
