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  • adverb In terms or by means of nomology

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nomological +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Since the cognition of these objects does not require the correct application of concepts, some of these intuitions might pick out nomologically ill-behaved or rogue objects that fall outside the constraints of the Second Analogy.

    Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009

  • In one corner are incompatibilists, who insist that determinism, the view that all events are causally or nomologically determined by antecedent events, is incompatible with moral responsibility, and argue that responsibility requires that agents enjoy alternate possibilities for behavior, or are the

    Hanging 2009

  • Hence if a law imposed pre-interactive correlations then µIndependence would fail for any nomologically possible choice of initial conditions, and wouldn't require any special choice.

    A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

  • Fodor spells out this sufficiency in terms of laws: a property makes a difference if “it's a property in virtue of the instantiation of which the occurrence of one event is nomologically sufficient for the occurrence of another” (Fodor 1989, p. 65, note omitted; see also McLaughlin 1989).

    Mental Causation Robb, David 2008

  • This is unlikely to be sure, but arguably nomologically possible.

    Externalism About Mental Content Lau, Joe 2008

  • Twin-Earth cases and Frege cases, are either nomologically impossible or dismissible as exceptions to non-strict psychological laws.

    Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008

  • There are no perfectly rigid bodies, at least in any nomologically possible world.

    The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

  • Indeed, this is exactly what happens in the nomologically possible cases discovered by Gödel; spacetime is topologically structured in such a way that a series of locally forward steps produces a globally backwards path.

    The Metaphysics of Causation Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

  • If the agent's explaining reasons R were among the causes of his action A, then there must be some universal causal law which nomologically links the psychological factors in R (together with other relevant conditions) to the A-type action that they rationalize.

    Action Wilson, George 2007

  • How can we bring an essential subjective range of judgements nomologically into line with a range of empirical judgements?

    Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007

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