an English question
By dufresne
@dufresne (137)
China
May 15, 2009 7:44pm CST
In the sentence "Approaches that would ignore the systemic implications of his observations will, in my judgment, fail to develop the full potential of globalized finance for well-developed and underdeveloped economies alike.",can I replace "systemic" with "systematic"?
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2 responses
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
18 May 09
not really.
"systemic" is more of a set pattern of doing things
"systematic" is examining by process of elimination usually.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
16 May 09
No, because they mean different things. In this case systemic is used as in "the whole...or all of". Systematic is related to events or procedures. If you use systematic you're referring to this step, followed by that step when the sentence focuses on the observations as a whole.
