What is Synthesis?
'''Synthesis''' means to bring ideas together, or to make something out of parts which were independent. It is the opposite of [[analysis]]. *As an intellectual activity, synthesis occurs often in [[philosophy]] and [[science]]. In philosophy, synthesis is the end of a process of [[argument]]. Two examples of people whose work was mostly synthesis are: **[[Charles Darwin]] **[[Herbert Spencer]] *In [[chemistry]], to synthesize is to make new [[Chemical compound|compound]]s from simpler elements. *In [[acoustics]], [[speech]] synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. == Related pages == * [[Synthetic]] * [[Synthesizer]] {{disambiguation}}