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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Or or pertaining to nomology, in any of its meanings.

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  • adjective philosophy Pertaining to or expressing general laws that lack logical necessity.

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nomology +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • She explains their more or less general domain of application in terms of causal capacities and arrangements she calls nomological machines (Cartwright 1989; Cartwright 1999).

    The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

  • The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl (1958) calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law.

    Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

  • This way, one might have interaction yet preserve a kind of nomological closure, in the sense that no laws are infringed.

    Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

  • As these boundaries become nomological systems the "other" acquires a quality -- in psychological terms -- of being considered essentially unnatural.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Alethic quirks: There are four levels of possibility we might distinguish: logical; metaphysical/nomological; temporal; technical.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Alethic quirks: There are four levels of possibility we might distinguish: logical; metaphysical/nomological; temporal; technical.

    Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

  • As these boundaries become nomological systems the "other" acquires a quality -- in psychological terms -- of being considered essentially unnatural.

    What is Otherness? Hal Duncan 2009

  • As these aesthetic boundaries build into nomological systems, these features are held to infringe the laws of normality, which in this case manifest as prescriptive standards of quality.

    What is Literary Fiction? Hal Duncan 2009

  • As these aesthetic boundaries build into nomological systems, these features are held to infringe the laws of normality, which in this case manifest as prescriptive standards of quality.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • In the "literary" camps of both SF and Fantasy, and in allied territories like slipstream and postmodernism, where experimentalist approaches are par for the course, we may well see logical impossibilities, outright self-contradictions, but for the most part the impossibilities we're dealing with are nomological.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

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  • From the Oxford English Dictionary Online:

    Relating to, concerned with, or designating laws, esp. (Philos.) ones which are not logical necessities; relating to nomology. Occas. as n.: a nomological law.

    July 30, 2008