Proceeding by breaking a whole into parts. Analysis reveals structure and loses the whole while it works.

To look into a thing until its parts and patterns show themselves — examination in service of understanding, never of judgment.

A small part attended to on its own. Detail is where a general claim either holds or fails.

Bright, clear — the seeing instrument's own word, from camera lucida: the prism that lays what is seen over the paper so a hand can trace it. Not a copy made for you, but a method made traceable. Latin.

A question put to a system in a form it can answer. A query's shape decides what can come back.

The careful going-and-looking-again — study that returns with sources, never with guesses.

To look for what may not be there. Searching differs from retrieving in that the outcome is not promised.

The field where a seeking is typed. The visible mouth of a search.