analytically

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   by virtue of analysis

   Assuming that the distinction is maintained one may ask which is to be analytically prior?

2. 2
   adv

   In an analytical manner.

   Put differently, the active ingredients in crime seem to be structural disadvantage and attenuated collective efficacy more so than disorder. Attacking public disorder through tough policing may thus be a politically popular but perhaps analytically weak strategy to reduce crime, mainly because such a strategy leaves the common origins of both […] untouched.

Common collocations

• analytically prior Adverb + adjective

From analytical + -ly.

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