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analytic philosophy

a 20th-cent. philosophic movement characterized by its method of analyzing concepts and statements in the light of common experience and ordinary language so as to eliminate confusions of thought and resolve many traditional philosophical problems

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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analytical philosophy is Sancho Panza who follows his sidekick Don Quixote around as they round Quixote's estate, he on a jackass and Quixote dressed as a knight and carrying a lance, rides on a skinny horse. While Quixote confuses resmblences with reality--windmills dangerous monsters and a flock of domestic animals grazing in the field are for him an enemy cavalry army. Though commonsensical Sancho Panza (big belly) tries to convince Quixote that resemblence are not reality, he is unsuccessful. Today we might say that Quixote is continental philosopher and fat belly an analytical one who probably would enjoy molecular cuisine rather than French cooking.

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