synthetic (sin the tik)

[= F. synthétique Sp. sintético = Pg. synthetico = It. sintetico, In fact, all mathematical judgments are synthetic, or, if analytic judgments are made in mathematics, they are quite subordinate in importance. E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 211. trated by recent or living than by early and extinct organisms. Most fo il types are synthetic in comparison with existent forms of which they are ancestral. - Synthetic geometry, geometry treated without algebra, or at least without coördinates: opposed to analytical geometry. Modern synthetic geometry, which has been almost altogether the fruit of the nineteenth century, resembles the geometry of the Greeks, but far surpa es it in power and sition, a judgment profe ing to contain matter of fact, beauty. See geometry. - Synthetic judgment or propoand not mere explication of what is implicitly contained in the idea of the subject. - Synthetic method. See method. Synthetic philosophy, philosophy of Her bert Spencer so called by himself, because it is conceived as a fusion of the different sciences into a whole. See Spencer i an ism .