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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of unlike or opposite polarity: applied to contact of parts of the human body in experiments in animal magnetism: opposed to isonomic.

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Examples

  • It might have been equally persuasive if it had flubbed from a heteronomic perspective the whole schmiel.

    Review of The Lost World of Genesis One, Part Six James F. McGrath 2009

  • If we assumed the exhaustive nature of the homonomic/heteronomic distinction, then the interaction principle would guarantee the heteronomicity of generalizations that include psychological predicates, and thus mental anomalism.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • Davidson's claim is that generalizations in which mental properties figure can only be heteronomic, not homonomic, and that therefore there can be no strict psychological or psychophysical laws.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • But we have already observed that Davidson's own formulation of the homonomic/heteronomic distinction as exhaustive makes it difficult to see how the possibility of heterogeneously formulated strict laws could even be at issue, since they appear to be ruled out by definition.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • Clearly something has gone wrong, and the purported exhaustiveness of the homonomic/heteronomic distinction is the culprit.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • And this means that we cannot assume the exhaustiveness of the homonomic/heteronomic distinction at the start.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • To see this, notice first that, according to Davidson's actual formulation, neither homonomic nor heteronomic generalizations are strict.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • However, Davidson's homonomic/heteronomic framework would allow us to draw directly from this uncontroversial point the far more controversial and interesting doctrines of psychophysical anomalism and monism, with no required route through the anomalism principle.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • Davidson is quite clear on this: the homonomic/heteronomic distinction is made

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • Christian ethics is essentially heteronomic: it teaches that all law, even natural law, emanates from God.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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