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Systematical

Systematic \Sys`tem*at"ic\, Systematical \Sys`tem*at"ic*al\, a.

  1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study.

    Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems.
    --I. Watts.

    A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic.
    --Whewell.

  2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence.

  3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical.

    These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical.
    --Boyle.

  4. (Med.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration.

    Systematic theology. See under Theology.

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a. systematic

Usage examples of "systematical".

Such a supposition, if used constitutively, goes far beyond where our present observation would justify us in going, which shows that it is nothing but a regulative principle of reason, leading us on to the highest systematical unity, by the idea of an intelligent causality in the supreme cause of the world, and by the supposition that this, as the highest intelligence, is the cause of everything, according to the wisest design.

Thus the procedure of reason by which the transcendental ideal becomes the basis of the determination of all possible things, is analogous to that which reason follows in disjunctive syllogisms, a proposition on which I tried before to base the systematical division of all transcendental ideas, and according to which they are produced, as corresponding to the three kinds of the syllogisms of reason.

In one word, that transcendental thing is only the schema of the regulative principle with which reason spreads systematical unity, as far as possible, over all experience.

Here, too, reason presupposes a systematical unity of diverse powers, because particular laws of nature are subject to more general laws, and parsimony in principles is not only considered as an economical rule of reason, but as an essential law of nature.