A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoust
ics, mathemat
ics, dynam
ics, statist
ics, polit
ics, athlet
ics. [
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"Mathematics have for their object the consideration of whatever is capable of being numbered or measured."
"Ethics is the sciences of the laws which govern our actions as moral agents."
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"All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it."
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"Mechanics, like pure mathematics, may be geometrical, or may be analytical; that is, it may treat space either by a direct consideration of its properties, or by a symbolical representation."
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