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Definition of nomological in English: nomologicaladjective ˌnɒməˈlɒdʒɪkəlˌnäməˈläjik(ə)l 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. 自然法则的,法理的 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
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another term for nomothetic Example sentencesExamples - What we want is a characterization of every physical process so that the invariance of cause and effect corresponds to nomological irreversibility.
- A nomological network seeks to relate theoretical constructs to each other, theoretical constructs to observable measures, and observable measures to each other.
- Four of those theories are nomological, and only one is historical.
- 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.
Derivativesadverb 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. Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, this is exactly what happens in the nomologically possible cases discovered by Gödel.
- This relation, which is differently characterized by different versions of the view, is such as to make it either nomologically certain or else highly probable that the belief is true.
- The mental is distinct from the physical but nomologically supervenes on it.
- Because both meaning and physical existence are dependent on time, they appear to be nomologically linked.
OriginMid 19th century: from Greek nomos 'law' + -logical (see -logy). Definition of nomological in US English: nomologicaladjectiveˌnäməˈläjik(ə)l 1Relating to or denoting certain principles, such as laws of nature, that are neither logically necessary nor theoretically explicable, but are simply taken as true. 自然法则的,法理的 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- I take it that Quine has in mind a causal or nomological sense.
- The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law.
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another term for nomothetic Example sentencesExamples - What we want is a characterization of every physical process so that the invariance of cause and effect corresponds to nomological irreversibility.
- Four of those theories are nomological, and only one is historical.
- A nomological network seeks to relate theoretical constructs to each other, theoretical constructs to observable measures, and observable measures to each other.
- This way, one might have interaction yet preserve a kind of nomological closure, in the sense that no laws are infringed.
- 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.
OriginMid 19th century: from Greek nomos ‘law’ + -logical (see -logy). |