  As suggested in the supplementary document on   Kant,  the decompositional conception of analysis found its classic  statement in the work of Kant at the end of the eighteenth century.  But Kant was only expressing a conception widespread at the time. The conception can be found in a very blatant form, for example, in the  writings of Moses Mendelssohn, for whom, unlike Kant, it was  applicable even in the case of geometry   [Quotation].  Typified in Kant's and Mendelssohn's view of concepts, it was also reflected in scientific practice. Indeed, its popularity was fostered by the chemical revolution inaugurated by Lavoisier in the  late eighteenth century, the comparison between philosophical  analysis and chemical analysis being frequently drawn. As Lichtenberg put it, “Whichever way you look at it, philosophy is always  analytical chemistry”   [Quotation].  