The difference between analysis and synthesis

Analysis is a powerful thinking tool - for understanding the parts of a situation.  It's just not that crash-hot for understanding how those parts work together.
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Synthesis, on the other hand, is a powerful thinking tool for understanding how the parts of a situation work together, but one needs to have broken the situation down into parts before one can use it.
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Combining analytical and systemic thinking