Analysis is reductive. Synthesis is holistic.
The basis for political centrism is a pairing or teaming: reductive analysis coupled with holistic sythesis. It's the Central Regulatory Model combined with local autonomy, an impregnable base plus freedom of movement, at once hierarchic and egalitarian. This yokes together conflict and conjunction
Excellent post, which also happens to apply to science. While many people focus on the "reductionist," or analysis, component of science, developing a deeper understanding of the phenomenon under study is only possible through the synthesis that follows analysis.