There are many approaches or methods to the practice of textual criticism, notably eclecticism, stemmatics, and copy-text editing. Quantitative techniques are also used to determine the relationships between witnesses to a text, called textual witnesses, with methods from evolutionary biology (phylogenetics) appearing to be effective on a range of traditions.
there are many approaches or methods to the practice of textual criticism notably eclecticism stemmatics and copy-text editing quantitative techniques are also used to determine the relationships between witnesses to a text called textual witnesses with methods from evolutionary biology (phylogenetics) appearing to be effective on a range of traditions