synthesis

synthesis
—synthesist, n.
/sin"theuh sis/, n., pl. syntheses /-seez'/.
1. the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis).
2. a complex whole formed by combining.
3. Chem. the forming or building of a more complex substance or compound from elements or simpler compounds.
4. Philos. See under Hegelian dialectic.
5. Biol. See modern synthesis.
6. Psychol., Psychiatry. the integration of traits, attitudes, and impulses to create a total personality.
[1580-90; < L < Gk sýnthesis, equiv. to syn- SYN- + the- (s. of tithénai to put, place) + -sis -SIS]

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      in philosophy, the combination of parts, or elements, in order to form a more complete view or system. The coherent whole that results is considered to show the truth more completely than would a mere collection of parts. The term synthesis also refers, in the dialectical philosophy of the 19th-century German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, to the higher stage of truth that combines the truth of a thesis and an antithesis. Jean-Paul Sartre's (Sartre, Jean-Paul) philosophy underscores an existential type of synthesis. In Being and Nothingness, consciousness (pour-soi) is always trying to become being (en-soi), to achieve a synthesis, as it were, between no-thing and some-thing.

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