nomological
- adjective
- /nəˈmɒlədʒɪkəl/
- Formal
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nomológico
- Philosophers often discuss nomological principles to understand the relationship between cause and effect.
- deductive-nomological
- nomological account
Examples
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In the terms favored by philosophy, these include a rejection of ontology in favor of epistemology, an empiricist epistemology, and a deductive-nomological account of scientific explanation.
Academic text (2016) -
However, because people are born within a culture, these mental representations are themselves influenced by the already given cultural world, thereby generating what he calls "nomological networks" from the perspective of psyche.
Academic text (1992) -
Much of the first part of this statement recalls the deductive-nomological account of scientific explanation forwarded by positivists: the language of laws combined with "certain given conditions" draws directly from this account.
Academic text (2016) -
These epistemological views are wedded to a deductive-nomological account of scientific explanation that insists on all explanations taking the form of a true general law combined with some statement of initial conditions.
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Law is just the formal codification of normative precedents, but it has an underlying ethical dimension no less than science (which is also nomological, as there are physical laws) has an epistemological or metaphysical one.
Blog text (1) -
Construct validation implies the construction of what Cronbach and Meehl (1955) call a nomological network—an interlocking system of laws.
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In science, a nomological framework helps to explain observed phenomena through general laws.
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The study revealed a nomological pattern in the data that supports the established theories in physics.
Synonyms
An approach in science that looks for general rules to explain people's behavior in many situations
About rules and basic ideas that explain how something works
Surface Forms
Morphology
nomological = nomology (semi-transparent) = nomology + ical
Standard adjective formation from the noun 'nomology' with the productive suffix '-ical'.
Etymology
Nomological comes from the Greek words nomos ('law') and logos ('study' or 'reason'), like the '-nomy' in astronomy or economy that points to rules or order. So a nomological framework in science is one that explains how events follow general laws.
