Similarly, the right amount was curative but a larger amount could be fatal. Whether something was good or bad depended on the circumstance and the system. Next came Aristotle who set up categories, definitions and boxes. Such boxes were derived from past experience. Once the boxes were established, it then became a matter of fitting new experiences into the standard boxes.
Analysis breaks things down so they can fit more easily into boxes.
Once something is judged as fitting into a box then we read the label to determine the appropriate action to be taken. The doctor diagnoses measles by the symptoms that suggest the 'measles' box. Action is determined by the label or instructions on that box. The UN has failed in Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti and Rwanda because the UN was set up to deal with conflicts between sovereign states. These boxes have proved useless in the situations mentioned.