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▪ I. nomic, a.1|ˈnɒmɪk|
[f. Gr. νόµος nome n.3: cf. next.]
Pertaining to, having the character of, Greek musical nomes.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Mode, The antients had like⁓wise their modi melipœiæ, of which Aristides names these: dithyrambic, nomic and tragic. 1789Twining Aristotle's Treat. Poetry (1812) I. 210 He, particularly, mentions the Persians and the Cyclops as imitated in the Dithyrambic and Nomic Poetry of Timotheus and Philoxenus. 1850Mure Lit. Greece III. 33 A wider compass and nobler character had been imparted to the nomic order of composition, through the medium of the flute or clarionet.
▪ II. nomic, a.2 and n.|ˈnɒmɪk|
[ad. Gr. νοµικός, f. νόµος law: cf. prec.]
A. adj. Of spelling: Customary, usual.
B. n.
1. The customary spelling.
1870A. J. Ellis in Trans. Philol. Soc. 89. 1880–1 Ibid. 303 Forming an introduction to nomic, and not at all..superseding the use of nomic. Ibid., Nomic spelling must always be a matter of memory.
2. Philos. and Math. That pertains to or is concerned with a discoverable scientific or logical law.
1892K. Pearson Gram. of Sci. iii. 114, I shall, for convenience, however, speak of natural law in the old sense, or, as a mere routine of perceptions, as law in the nomic sense. Law in the nomic sense is thus no product of the reason, but a pure order of perceptions. 1905Nature 30 Mar. 517/2 The correlation..is..of nomic heteroscedasticity. 1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. iv. 61, I should propose that nomic (from νόµος, a law) should be substituted for necessary as contrasted with contingent. Thus a nomic proposition is one that expresses a pure law of nature. 1959K. R. Popper Logic of Sci. Discovery 434 A ‘necessary conditional’ or a ‘nomic conditional’. 1961E. Nagel Structure of Sci. iv. 51 The distinction between accidental and nomic universality can be brought out in another way. 1973N. Rescher Conceptual Idealism iv. 59 This nomological necessity of laws is generally called ‘nomic necessity’.
Hence ˈnomically adv.
1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. iv. 61, The nomically possible. |