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Nomothetic and
idiographic are
terms used by Neo-Kantian
philosopher Wilhelm Windelband to
describe two
distinct approaches to knowledge, each one corresponding...
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Nomothetic literally means "proposition of the law" (Gr**** derivation) and is used in philosophy, psychology, and law with
differing meanings. In the general...
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quantitative revolution,
geography shifted to an
empirical law-making (
nomothetic) approach.
Several laws of
geography have been
proposed since then, most...
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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...
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context and
subjective meaning. In contrast, the
social sciences employ a
nomothetic approach (s****ing
general laws and patterns)
through empirical and quantitative...
- Sutton, M. D.; Bennett, K. D. (2018). "How big is a genus?
Towards a
nomothetic systematics".
Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society. 183 (2): 237–252...
- (sociology) Emic and etic
Humanistic sociology Humanistic coefficient Nomothetic and
idiographic Reflexivity (social theory) "Verstehen: The Sociology...
- 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...
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pluralism realism Holism Instrumentalism Modernism Naturalism in
literature Nomothetic–idiographic
distinction Objectivity in
science Operationalism Phenomenalism...
