It is instructive to break something down into its constituent parts, and then study how they work together to work as a whole.
There are those that accuse analytical thinkers of poor epistemology: of distorting the wholistic essence of a thing, that cannot be studied or understood accept as a whole.
Perhaps it can only be intellectually grasped by intuition, not analysis, categorizing and being broke into discrete units and parts.
These skeptics have a point, but the excercise of analysis is still useful, productive and informative.
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