One school of analysis held that people's behavior is based on their understanding of the world, the other that people are unaware of how their behavior is determined by political and economic systems.
A school of analysis initiated by the American mathematician Errett Bishop has developed a new framework for analysis in which no object can be deemed to exist unless a specific rule is given for constructing it.
"I belong to a school of analysis that says the problem is not just scientific or technical, the problem is societal, cultural and economic," he told BBC News.
And I know these schools of analysis and they're very very helpful conceptually, and in dealing with literature and philosophy.
Even the somewhat abstruse rhetorical speculations of the Sanskritic poetic schools of analysis were used as formulas for the production of 17th-century Hindi court poetry; the Rasikapriyā ("Beloved of the Connoisseur") of Keśavadāsa is a good example of this kind of tour de force.
Schlosser, who is a seasoned student and critic of nuclear weapons, does not subscribe to this particular school of historical analysis.
Competition is fierce between such online outfits as Vox.com (run by Ezra Klein, formerly of the Washington Post) and fivethirtyeight.com (the brainchild of Nate Silver, the Dumbledore of the in-data-we-trust school of political analysis).
Nowadays, however, it is commonly used, in a narrower sense, to refer to the so-called post-Bloomfieldian school of language analysis that follows the methods of Leonard Bloomfield, developed after 1930.
A specialised approach to reading dictated his choice of university: Kenyon College, Ohio, where Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell had studied a decade earlier, and where the English faculty was dominated by John Crowe Ransom, a poet and founder of the school of textual analysis known as the New Criticism.
Under the so-called Chicago school of antitrust analysis, named for the University of Chicago, which has been in ascendance since the 1970's, mergers between horizontal competitors are likely to get closer scrutiny than are deals by companies with a vertical relationship.
Sergei Kiselyov, an economics expert from the school of political analysis at the Kiev-Mogilyanskaya Academy, sainflationion and higher gas rates for heating companies would "hit a lot harder" than the rise in consumer gas prices, which average only 7.5 hryvnia (38p) per person per month.
