Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to lawmaking; legislative.
- adj. Based on a system of law.
- adj. Of or relating to the philosophy of law.
- adj. Of or relating to the study or discovery of general scientific laws.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Legislative; enacting laws.
- Pertaining to a nomothete, or to the body of nomothetes.
- Founded on a system of law or by a lawgiver; nomistic: as, nomothetic religions.
- Noting a science which aims at the discovery of universals or general laws: opposed to idiographic.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Legislative; enacting laws.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek νομοθετικός. (Wiktionary)
- Greek nomothetikos : nomos, law; see nem- in Indo-European roots + thetikos, thetic; see thetic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“First, there is a critique of the "nomothetic" quest -- the idea that the social sciences should discover social laws.”
“I believe the distinction by Wilhelm Dilthey between "nomothetic" (= positing laws) and "idiographic" (= describing individuals) sciences, is still much more fruitful than other approaches that tend to blur the dividing line.”
“On the one hand, Wilson has thus strengthened the Soviet element within "post-Soviet transitions" lending support to those researchers emphasizing the continued relevance of the ideographic element in †"as opposed to nomothetic approaches to â€" the study of contemporary Russia, Ukraine, etc.”
Understanding the Orange Revolution: Ukraine's Democratization in the Russian Mirror
“Unlike the “nomothetic” knowledge that natural science seeks, what matters in historical science is not a universal law-like causality, but an understanding of the particular way in which an individual ascribes values to certain events and institutions or takes a position towards the general cultural values of his/her time under a unique, never-to-be-repeated constellation of historical circumstances.”
“Most of the studies presented in this book are nomothetic.”
“The nomothetic approach tries to draw inferences from a more limited exposure to a large number of cases.”
“Qualitative research may be idiographic or nomothetic.”
“Thus Windelband proposed that the natural sciences are nomothetic and the historical or cultural sciences ideographic.”
“Dilthey rejects Windelband's distinction by showing that many natural sciences have ideographic elements and many human sciences such as linguistics and economics have nomothetic aims.”
“It's also worth stating that one of the theoretical approaches associated with ethnographic research is an idiographic, rather than nomothetic, approach to data -- a concern with the particular, rather than the general.”
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
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