ANALYTICS. – A term derived from analysis. In Aristotle, the Analytics (Prior and Posterior) are the two books of logic that deal with the syllogism and demonstration. In Kant, analytics is the science of the forms of knowing, and transcendental analytics, in the sense given by Kant to the term “transcendental,” is that part of logic which analyzes the faculty of knowing in order to discover within it the a priori elements and forms of pure intellectual knowledge (concepts and principles) without which no object can be thought.
As a substantive entered into common philosophical language, not to mention its extensive use in mathematics and geometry, it can be said that analytics expresses the strong sense of analysis, almost an abbreviation of science, research into: that is, the methodical, resolutive study of a phenomenon, a problem, a doctrine, etc., in its causes, its elements, its principles. It is in this sense that we can speak, for example, of the analytics of thought, analytics of experience, analytics of Thomism.