Meaning of systematics | Babel Free

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1. The study of classification systems and nomenclature.
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2. The study of classification systems and nomenclature
3. The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
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4. The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology
5. the study of classification and methods of classification. — systematician, systematist, n.
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6. A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
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7. A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion
8. The science of systematic classification.
9. The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
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10. The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation
11. A system of classification, as biosystematics.
12. Biology The systematic classification of organisms, especially in terms of the similarities or evolutionary relationships among them; taxonomy.
    Biology
13. (Biology) (functioning as singular) the study of systems and the principles of classification and nomenclature
    functioning as singular
14. the study of systems or of classification.
15. any system of classification.
16. the classification of organisms; taxonomy.

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“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.”

“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.”

“Systematics is an effort to understand those specifically theological affirmations that the theologian holds to be true and so regards as doctrines.”

“The seventh functional specialty, systematics, is concerned with promoting an understanding of the realitites affirmed in the previous specialty, doctrines.”

“Not 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.”

“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.”

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