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Nomothetic refers to the use of generalization rather than specific properties in the same context.
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Nomothetic and use
One important use of the word " Nomothetic " is in the term " Nomothetic Fallacy ," which is the belief that naming a problem effectively solves it.
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Nomothetic psychology seeks general laws that can be applied to many different people, such as the principle of self-actualization, or the trait of extraversion.
Nomothetic explanations tend to be more general with scientists trying to identify a few causal factors that impact a wide class of conditions or events.
Nomothetic literally means " proposition of the law " ( Greek derivation ) and is used in philosophy ( see also Nomothetic and idiographic ), psychology, and law with differing meanings.
Nomothetic approaches are most appropriate to the deductive approach to social research in as much as they include the more highly structured research methodologies which can be replicated and controlled, and which focuses on generating quantitative data with a view to explaining casual relationships.
Nomothetic and idiographic are terms used by Kantian philosopher Wilhelm Windelband to describe two distinct approaches to knowledge, each one corresponding to a different intellectual tendency, and each one corresponding to a different branch of academe.
Nomothetic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to generalize, and is typical for the natural sciences.
Nomothetic describes the study of classes or cohorts of individuals.
Nomothetic explanations are probabilistic and usually incomplete.
refers and use
In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.
A “ glass ” cockpit refers to the use of computer monitors instead of gauges and other analog displays.
However, since Paul was from Cilicia and refers to himself using this name ( see Acts 21: 39, 22: 3 ), it seems very natural that the name Cilicia would have continued to be in colloquial use among its residents despite its hiatus in official Roman nomenclature.
Likewise, " architecture " refers not only to the design of safe, functional buildings, but also to elements of creation and innovation which aim at elegant solutions to construction problems, to the use of space, and to the attempt to evoke an emotional response in the builders, owners, viewers and users of the building.
* In grammar, balancing refers to the use in subordinate clauses of verb forms identical to those in main clauses
In modern and ancient usage, even within secular terminology, Christ usually refers to Jesus, building on the centuries old tradition of such use.
Hence Paul can use the term Christos with no confusion as to who it refers to, and as in and he can use expressions such as " in Christ " to refer to the followers of Jesus.
** The Serbians use word " cifra ", which refers to any number. Besides " cifra ", they use word " broj ".
Utility cycling refers both to cycling as a mode of daily commuting transport as well as the use of a bicycle in a commercial activity, mainly to transport goods, mostly accomplished in an urban environment.
This last term (" von Neumann machine ") is less specific and also refers to a completely unrelated computer architecture proposed by von Neumann, so its use is discouraged where accuracy is important.
In computing, memory refers to the physical devices used to store programs ( sequences of instructions ) or data ( e. g. program state information ) on a temporary or permanent basis for use in a computer or other digital electronic device.
This source refers to the use of a giant crossbow in the 6th to 5th century BC, corresponding to the late Spring and Autumn Period.
Sun Tzu's influential book The Art of War ( first appearance dated in between 500 BC to 300 BC ) refers in chapter V to the traits and in XII to the use of crossbows.
Therefore, it is clear there is no real consensus of what the term crannog actually implies, although the modern adoption in the English language broadly refers to a partially or completely artificial islet which saw use from the prehistoric to the Post-Medieval period in Ireland and Scotland.
" It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that " given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s.
One use of the term computer security refers to technology to implement a secure operating system.
The acronym refers to its deuterium-oxide ( heavy water ) moderator and its use of ( originally, natural ) uranium fuel.
The use of ' very small ' quantities such as is related to the physical requirement for the quantity to be ' rapidly determined ' by and ; such ' rapid determination ' refers to a physical process.
* Most Reformation and post-Reformation churches use the term Catholic ( often with a lower-case c ) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church regardless of denominational divisions ; e. g., Chapter XXV of the Westminster Confession of Faith refers to the " catholic or universal Church ".
Distributed computing also refers to the use of distributed systems to solve computational problems.
Digital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to capture, distribute, or project motion pictures.
In scientific use the term empirical refers to the gathering of data using only evidence that is observable by the senses or in some cases using calibrated scientific instruments.
Absolute temperature refers to use of the Kelvin ( K ) or Rankine (° R ) temperature scales, with zero being absolute zero.
refers and generalization
In the case of quantum mechanics, the main part of the three-body problem refers to the finding the eigenstates and their energies .. For a special case of the quantum three-body problem known as the Hydrogen Molecular ion, the eigenenergies are solvable analytically ( see discussion in quantum mechanical version of Euler's three-body problem ) in terms a generalization of the Lambert W function.
In anthropology, nomothetic refers to the use of generalization rather than specific properties in the context of a group as an entity.
refers and rather
Null-A, or non-Aristotelian logic, refers to the capacity for, and practice of, using intuitive, inductive reasoning ( compare fuzzy logic ), rather than reflexive, or conditioned, deductive reasoning.
The and convention for amino acid configuration refers not to the optical activity of the amino acid itself, but rather to the optical activity of the isomer of glyceraldehyde from which that amino acid can, in theory, be synthesized (- glyceraldehyde is dextrorotary ;-glyceraldehyde is levorotatory ).
If the filter shows amplitude ripple within the passband, the x dB point refers to the point where the gain is x dB below the nominal passband gain rather than x dB below the maximum gain.
Usually pages per minute refers to sparse monochrome office documents, rather than dense pictures which usually print much more slowly, especially colour images.
Therefore, when continuum mechanics refers to a point or particle in a continuous body it does not describe a point in the interatomic space or an atomic particle, rather an idealized part of the body occupying that point.
" The concept of cyberspace therefore refers not to the content being presented to the surfer, but rather to the possibility of surfing among different sites, with feedback loops between the user and the rest of the system creating the potential to always encounter something unknown or unexpected.
The only early Arab historian who mentions the Druze is the 11th century Christian scholar Yahya of Antioch, who clearly refers to the heretical group created by ad-Darazī rather than the followers of Hamza ibn ' Alī.
The term " potassium-sparing " refers to an effect rather than a mechanism or location ; nonetheless, the term almost always refers to two specific classes that have their effect at similar locations:
By convention, electric engine refers to a railroad electric locomotive, rather than an electric motor.
He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.
The term fanzine is sometimes confused with " fan magazine ", but the latter term most often refers to commercially produced publications for ( rather than by ) fans.
For example, in German: Oldtimer refers to an old car ( or antique aircraft ) rather than an old person, while Handy refers to a mobile phone.
Beamer refers to a computer projector or video projector rather than a motorcycle manufactured by BMW.
( However, this refers to the theory ’ s application rather than to its derivation.
It also refers to integrated switching and transmission in that telephone switching and carrier wave transmission are integrated rather than separate as in earlier technology.
At this point Adams began to experiment with electronic music, and his experiences are reflected in the writing of Phrygian Gates ( 1977 – 78 ), in which the constant shifting between modules in Lydian mode and Phrygian mode refers to activating electronic gates rather than architectural ones.
It generally refers to a " pure ," ideal type of love, rather than the physical attraction suggested by eros.
This type of question does not necessarily contain a fallacious presupposition, but rather this usage refers to the question having an unspoken and often emotive implication.
This phrase refers to the physical nature and quality of the act, rather than the moral quality.
The term natural language refers to actual linguistic behavior, and is aligned with descriptive linguistics rather than linguistic prescription.
" As is common with ancient texts, multiple titles may represent a single source, for example, if a title refers to a section rather than the whole.
Postmodern Classical music as well is not a musical style, but rather refers to music of the postmodern era.
Postmodern music is not a distinct musical style, but rather refers to music of the postmodern era.
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