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AnalyticalThinking is concerned with identifying differences while SyntheticThinking is about establishing similarities.
AnalyticalThinking allows us to comprehend the parts of the situations while SyntheticThinking enables us to understand how they work together.
Analytical: different car parts and how they are formed & work individually. A collection of wikipedia entries of the different car parts.
Synthetic: How different car parts work together to move the car, their unique relationships, how they help or impede one another, the implications of one not working as well as another, the shared histories of development. A history book on the stages of development of automobiles
Synthetic & Analytic thinking 
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Understanding | If we push ourselves to add lots of links between our notes, that makes us think expansively about what other concepts might be related to what we’re thinking about. It creates pressure to think carefully about how ideas relate to each other - AnalyticalThinking - the difference between synthetic thinking & analytical thinking
Article: Three Layers of Evidence
The third and last layer of evidence is the level of synthesis. This layer is to the second what the second is to the first. You take the entities as building blocks for the bigger picture. You string together hypothesis, theories, models and more create something that is useful, interesting, entertaining and what not.