analysandum Philos.
(əˌnælɪˈzændəm)
[f. analyse v. + -andum (L. neut. gerundive termination, ‘thing fit to’ undergo the action of the verb: see -and2).]
The proposition or concept to be analysed; in a philosophical analysis, the expression to be clarified, or that which is signified by the expression to be clarified.
| 1907 S. H. Hodgson in Proc. Arist. Soc. VII. 117 But in whichever way we define apperception..we have by no means surmounted the difficulty of distinguishing, in that universal panorama which is our analysandum, what is due to conation from what is due to perception. 1932 Proc. Arist. Soc. XXXIII. 77 The kind of analysis that is possible..depends upon the kind of combination, or complex, which the analysandum is. 1944 [see next]. 1956 J. O. Urmson Philos. Analysis iv. 53 To say ‘p is equivalent to q’ where p is the analysis and q the analysandum is to utter a tautology if true. 1960 in ― Concise Encycl. Western Philos. 18/1 An analysis..is a sort of definition, a kind of equation with the puzzling expression, the analysandum, on the left-hand side and the new expression, sometimes called the analysis, sometimes the analysans, on the right. |