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Definition of Nomothetic

Nomothetic
Nomothetic Nom`o*thet"ic, Nomothetical Nom`o*thet"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?.] Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power. [R.] --Bp. Barlow.

Meaning of Nomothetic from wikipedia

- Nomothetic literally means "proposition of the law" (Gr**** derivation) and is used in philosophy, psychology, and law with differing meanings. In the general...
- Nomothetic and idiographic are terms used by Neo-Kantian philosopher Wilhelm Windelband to describe two distinct approaches to knowledge, each one corresponding...
- quantitative revolution, geography shifted to an empirical law-making (nomothetic) approach. Several laws of geography have been proposed since then, most...
- other way around. Explanations in social theories can be idiographic or nomothetic. An idiographic approach to an explanation is one where the scientists...
- (1937) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic and the idiographic. Nomothetic psychology s****s general laws that can be applied to many...
- context and subjective meaning. In contrast, the social sciences employ a nomothetic approach (s****ing general laws and patterns) through empirical and quantitative...
- pluralism realism Holism Instrumentalism Modernism Naturalism in literature Nomothetic–idiographic distinction Objectivity in science Operationalism Phenomenalism...
- (sociology) Emic and etic Humanistic sociology Humanistic coefficient Nomothetic and idiographic Reflexivity (social theory) "Verstehen: The Sociology...
- approaches is that such coding sorts qualitative data into predefined (nomothetic) categories that are reflective of the categories found in objective science...
- uses laws only as a means. Particle physics, on the other hand, is a nomothetic discipline because the goal is to infer general laws; descriptions of...