单词 | nomothetic |
释义 | nomotheticadj.ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [adjective] > legislating law-givinga1586 nomothetical1618 legislative1621 nomothetic1638 legislating1659 legislatorial1820 1638 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 117 To be absolved from the tye of laws, that nomothetick power. 1658 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude 4 Lusts cannot endure to hear of a restraint, and therefore we oppose most Christ's nomothetic power. 1678 J. Brown Hist. Indulgence 88 His assuming a Supreame Nomothetick power in Church-matters. 1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 217 Division of Internal Government and Politics into Nomothetic..and Aneunomothetic. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xi. 165 To suppose that Solon..provided for the periodical revision of his laws by establishing a Nomothetic jury..would be at variance..with any reasonable estimate. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XX. 368 Nomistic or nomothetic communities, founded on a law or Holy Scripture. 2. Relating to or concerned with the study or discovery of the general laws underlying something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of general principles nomothetic1904 nomothetical1931 1904 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 42 This is the same distinction as that made by Windelband under the names nomothetic and idiographic sciences. 1909 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 19 384 They are treated in this volume merely as a second appendix to the nomothetic work... Volume I is, therefore, mainly concerned with the nomothetic study of the science of living form. 1970 Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 9/7 Is musicology..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? 1990 Physiotherapy 76 757/2 Common sense defies ‘nomothetic’ procedures such as hypothesis formation and prediction by means of statistics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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