Part I. Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis and Forecasting

1.8: Modes of Reasoning- Dialectical versus Analytic

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1The process of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis, developing a contradictory antithesis based on concrete possibilities, and combining them into a coherent synthesis, often after numerous variations and iterations.
2A method of “argument” or exposition that systematically weighs an idea with a view to the resolution of its real or apparent contradictions.

How to Engage in Abstract or Analytic Reasoning

Analytic argumentation differs markedly from Dialectical. The following pertains to the Analytic method only. Keep it in mind.

The Talmudic method invariably prefers to pose questions in a concrete rather than an abstract form.

Reference Guide to the Talmud , p. 131 (2014)

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