  In the twentieth century, both analytic philosophy and phenomenology  can be seen as developing far more sophisticated conceptions of  analysis, which draw on but go beyond mere decompositional analysis.  The following   Section  offers an account of analysis in analytic philosophy, illustrating  the range and richness of the conceptions and practices that arose.  But it is important to see these in the wider context of  twentieth-century methodological practices and debates, for it is not just in ‘analytic’ philosophy—despite its  name—that analytic methods are accorded a central role.  Phenomenology, in particular, contains its own distinctive set of  analytic methods, with similarities and differences to those of  analytic philosophy. Phenomenological analysis has frequently been  compared to conceptual clarification in the ordinary language  tradition, for example, and the method of ‘phenomenological  reduction’ that Husserl invented in 1905 offers a striking  parallel to the reductive project opened up by Russell's theory of descriptions, which also made its appearance in 1905.