| 释义 |
nomoˈthetic, a.
[ad. Gr. νοµοθετικός.]
= next; that pertains to or is concerned with the study or discovery of general (scientific) laws, esp. as contrasted with idiographic study.
1658Manton Exp. Jude 4 Lusts cannot endure to hear of a restraint, and therefore we oppose most Christ's nomothetic power. 1816Bentham Chrestomathia Wks. 1843 VIII. 94 Division of Internal Government and Politics, into Nomothetic..and Aneunomothetic. 1883[see nomistic]. [ 1894: see idiographic adj. s.v. idio-]. 1904Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 21 Jan. 42 This is the same distinction as that made by Windelband under the names nomothetic and idiographic sciences. a1943R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 166 Windelband..laid it down that history and science were two different things... There were two kinds of science..: nomothetic science, which is science in the common sense of the word, and idiographic science, which is history. 1948Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXVIII. 160 (heading) Nomothetic and idiographic [perspectives in psychology]... Two aims: the discovery of general laws of mind, or the description..of the unique undivided personality... Well-balanced psychologists ought to keep in mind both the nomothetic and idiographic aims. 1955F. H. Allport Theories of Perception xi. 263 Conditions that are truer to life than those in which the exact or ‘nomothetic’ laws of nature are sought. 1964Listener 16 Apr. 617/2, I [sc. G. Freeland] have coined..the term ‘nomothetic corrections’. This group of corrections is intimately tied up with scientific laws. 1970Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 9/7 Is musicology—or rather musikwissenschaft, which means science of music—a nomothetic or an idiographic discipline?. Ought it to emulate physics and concern itself with establishing generally applicable laws or must it, like history, describe what is unrepeatable? |