Systematics

Quick meaning: Systematics is a noun meaning The study of classification systems and nomenclature.

Meaning

The study of classification systems and nomenclature.

More Meanings

1. The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
2. The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
3. A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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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