- In Logic and Philosophy it is said that synthesis is the following
- The action of proceeding in thought from causes to effects, or from laws or principles to their consequences. E17.
- In Kantian philosophy, the action of the understanding in combining and unifying isolated sense-data into a cognizable whole. E19.
- In Hegelian philosophy, the final stage of a dialectic progression in which an idea is proposed (thesis), then negated (antithesis), and finally transcended by a new idea that resolves the conflict between the first and its negation. L19.
- More generally synthesis may be understood as the following: The action or an act of putting together parts or elements to make up a complex whole; the combination of immaterial or abstract things, or of elements into an ideal or abstract whole; the state of being so put together. Also, a complex whole made up of a number of united parts or elements. M19.