nomically

Joel Kotkin suggests that the U.S., due to its expanding population, will do better eco-nomically than Europe, Japan, and China.

Letters: ‘Shanghai Surprise’ 2010

Explaining an outcome isn't just a matter of showing that it is nomically expectable.

Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009

Blackburn thinks that we require such an explanation even if there are metaphysically or nomically necessary connections between moral and nonmoral terms or properties.

Boys in White Suits 2009

But, N-relation theorists often argue, if one property nomically necessitates a second, that does explain why anything having the first also has the second.

A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung 2007

As background to this doctrine, consider first that most neuroscientists believe that for every conscious state there is a minimal neural substrate that is nomically sufficient as a matter of natural law for its occurrence.

Alva Noë and Evan Thompson - Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness? William Harryman 2009

To see how the claim that the Turing Test is merely criterial for the ascription of intelligence differs from the logical behaviorist claim that the Turing Test provides logically sufficient conditions for the ascription of intelligence, it suffices to consider the question of whether it is nomically possible for there to be a “hand simulation” of a Turing Test program.

The Turing Test Oppy, Graham 2008

According to his account, a non-inferential belief qualifies as knowledge if the belief has properties that are nomically sufficient for its truth, i.e., guarantee its truth via laws of nature.

Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008

(If it is nomically impossible to simulate intelligence using computers, then the alleged fact that digital computers cannot genuinely possess intelligence casts no doubt at all on the usefulness of the Turing Test, since digital computers are nomically disqualified from the range of cases in which there is mere simulation of intelligence.)

The Turing Test Oppy, Graham 2008

This is because, for all that has been argued, it may be that it is not nomically possible to provide any “hand simulation” of intelligence (and, in particular, that it is not possible to simulate intelligence using any kind of computer).

The Turing Test Oppy, Graham 2008

As I indicated in comments to teh Kibbutz post, this means of social organization arguably allowed Jewish settlers to hold onto their land in the face of constant attack and threat of attack from nomically superior forces.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Debate Over Socialism Isn’t Over: 2007