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decompositional

Definitions

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  • adjective causing organic decay.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to decomposition.

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  • adjective causing organic decay

Etymologies

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decomposition +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Above all, planning is characterized by the decompositional nature of analysis—reducing states and processes to their component parts.

    The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994

  • Above all, planning is characterized by the decompositional nature of analysis—reducing states and processes to their component parts.

    The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994

  • Four years later Dara Birnbaum contributed one of the earliest appropriation works with her decompositional riff off the Wonder Woman television series.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Four years later Dara Birnbaum contributed one of the earliest appropriation works with her decompositional riff off the Wonder Woman television series.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Kant, the decompositional conception of analysis found its classic statement in the work of Kant at the end of the eighteenth century.

    Analysis Beaney, Michael 2009

  • The decompositional conception of analysis is explicit here, and if we follow this up into the later

    Analysis Beaney, Michael 2009

  • As early as 1976, Wimsatt (1976) argued for a shift in the reduction debate from talk of relations between theories to talk of decompositional explanation via mechanisms.

    Molecular Biology Darden, Lindley 2009

  • This decompositional conception of analysis set the methodological agenda for philosophical approaches and debates in the (late) modern period (nineteenth and twentieth centuries).

    Analysis Beaney, Michael 2009

  • GRACE: And what about the possibility that decompositional fluid may be found on her shoes?

    CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2009 2009

  • Given that the decompositional conception is usually offered as the main conception today, it might be thought that it is this that characterizes analytic philosophy.

    Analysis Beaney, Michael 2009

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