Meanings
- uncountableThe study of classification systems and nomenclature.
Trees are the central objects of systematic analysis. Taxa are ordered, characters explained, and hypotheses tested on trees. Since systematics informs and draws on other areas of science, there is a diversity of terminology for trees and their components.
2012, Ward C. Wheeler, Systematics: A Course of Lectures, →ISBN, page 2-61 more example
Systematics is intended to be the study of "qualitative" and structural aspects of all things in the universe; and if feasible, is designed to absorb eventually the "quantitative approach" of mathematics toward human and physical worlds as well. It is hoped that systematics will be able to develop a quantitative field and thus to enable it to incorporate mathematics into its realm of studies some time in the future.
2009, Victor Lux Tonn, Systematics and the Economics of Culture, →ISBN, page 187 - uncountableThe classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
- uncountableA branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
Systematics is an effort to understand those specifically theological affirmations that the theologian holds to be true and so regards as doctrines.
1990, Robert M. Doran, Theology and the Dialectics of History, →ISBN, page 72 more examples
The seventh functional specialty, systematics, is concerned with promoting an understanding of the realitites affirmed in the previous specialty, doctrines.
1990, Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Method in Theology - Volume 12, →ISBN, page 335Not exegesis itself, then, but biblical theology, provides the material for systematics .... Bliblical theology is not, then, a rival of systematics; it is not even a parallel product of the same body of facts, provided by exegesis; it is the basis and source of systematics.
2006, M. James Sawyer, The Survivor's Guide to Theology, →ISBN, page 208 - uncountableThe place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
Different kinds of systematic interpretation of statutes affect each other. Construction of a statutory provision depends at the same time on interpretation of other provisions, systematics of the statute, conceptual analysis and theories formulated in legal dogmatics.
1989, Aleksander Peczenik, “Coherence, Truth and Rightness in the Law”, in Patrick J. Nerhot, editor, Law, Interpretation and Reality. Essays in Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Jurisprudence, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 300
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Translations
Czech systematika
- systematikathe systematic classification of organisms
Finnish systematiikka, systematiikka
- systematiikkathe systematic classification of organisms
- systematiikkaplace where legal provisions stand
German Systematik, Systematik
- Systematikthe systematic classification of organisms
- Systematikplace where legal provisions stand
Greek συστηματική
- συστηματική (systimatikí)the systematic classification of organisms
Indonesian sistematika
- sistematikathe systematic classification of organisms
Latvian sistemātika
- sistemātikathe systematic classification of organisms
Polish systematyka, systematyka
- systematykathe systematic classification of organisms
- systematykaplace where legal provisions stand
Portuguese sistemática
- sistemáticathe systematic classification of organisms
Romanian sistematică
- sistematicăthe systematic classification of organisms
Russian система́тика
- система́тика (sistemátika)the systematic classification of organisms
Spanish sistemática
- sistemáticathe systematic classification of organisms
Swedish systematik, systematik
- systematikthe systematic classification of organisms
- systematikplace where legal provisions stand
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