stemmatics
IPA: stˈɛmˈætɪks
noun
- The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
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Examples of "stemmatics" in Sentences
- I tend to think that only people doing stemmatics and philology get it right because no claim to the "right" reading can be confirmed or rejected.
- Indeed, it has not borrowed its concepts from classical stemmatics or even from phylogenetics in biology, which have been tested and found to be robust over many different applications.
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