NOUN | cognition | stemmatics, stemmatology | the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text / text (especially a text / text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) |
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Meaning | The humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text / text (especially a text / text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis). | |
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Example | "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" | |
Synonym | stemmatology | |
Broader | humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts | studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) |
Spanish | stemmática |
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