nomological
/ˌnɒməˈlɒdʒɪkəl
/adjective
1Relating to or denoting principles that resemble laws, especially those laws of nature which are neither logically necessary nor theoretically explicable, but just are so.I take it that Quine has in mind a causal or nomological sense....
- Many standard theories of causation also endorse this conclusion, for example, if we are willing to assume it is a law that all ravens are black, then nomological theories of causation will support the claim.
- The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law.
1.1 another term for nomothetic.For Boyle, physical objects do exhibit nomological regularities, but this is a contingent fact about the world, or rather, for Boyle was cautious about generalizing, about the spatio-temporal portion of it we occupy....
- This way, one might have interaction yet preserve a kind of nomological closure, in the sense that no laws are infringed.
- A nomological network seeks to relate theoretical constructs to each other, theoretical constructs to observable measures, and observable measures to each other.
Derivatives
nomologically
- The mental is distinct from the physical but nomologically supervenes on it.
- In other words, take two tokens of a nomologically reversible process type, say A and B, and let B be the actively time reversed process of A, then this interpretation claims that A and B causally develop in the same direction of time.
- Indeed, this is exactly what happens in the nomologically possible cases discovered by Gödel.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek nomos 'law' + -logical (see -logy).