nomologyn.
/nəˈmɒlədʒi/, U.S. /nəˈmɑlədʒi/ 1. The branch of science and philosophy concerned with the laws or principles governing the operation of the mind, esp. as defined by custom or culture (cf. nomography n.1 2, nomos n.). Formerly also: †a treatise on this (obsolete).
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > specific branches or aspects of botany
phytognomy1643
topology1659
vegetable statics1691
cryptogamy1783
fossil botany1822
nomology1825
structural botany1835
phytochemistry1837
phytochimy1847
phytogeography1847
astrobotany1851
phytonomy1851
phytophysiology1854
palaeophytology1857
phytobiology1860
phytopathology1864
plant physiology1870
palaeobotany1872
plant geography1878
phytopalaeontology1879
plant pathology1891
ethnobotany1896
floristic1898
phyteconomy1898
phytoteratology1898
phytoecology1899
geobotany1904
phytosociology1917
archaeobotany1954
palaeoethnobotany1959
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > [noun] > laws governing faculties
nomology1825
1825 T. H. Horne Outl. Classif. Libr. 5 Abbé Girard..divides human knowledge into six classes, viz. Theology, Nomology..and Technology..under Nomology, which class comprises whatever relates to Society, we meet with the term Corporology.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. vii. 122 Some older treatises..afford a name not unsuitable for a nomology of the cognitions,—viz. Gnoseologia or Gnostologia.
1867 H. N. Day Elements of Logic II. i. 137 It leaves to the proper Nomology of the Presentative Faculties—the Nomology of Perception, the Nomology of the Regulative or Intuitive Faculty—to prescribe the conditions of a perfect cognition of the matter which it appertains to them to apprehend.
1901 Month May 497 Nomology would be that which deals with the conformity of actions to rules.
1958 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 18 539 This is clearly outside the scope of political science which has no interest..in nomology (i.e., the replacement of nature or Being by custom, or the failure to evolve a notion of nature as a preferable alternative to custom).
1993 Jrnl. Philos. 90 139 Here I differ from Davidson, who thinks of nomology in science and is less willing to believe that natural laws can simply be chosen.
2. The science of law; the branch of knowledge concerned with law and justice. Cf. jurisprudence n. 1b.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun]
law14..
jure1496
jurisprudence1756
forensic science1789
juristics1837
nomology1880
1880 T. E. Holland Jurisprudence iii. 23 Ethic is the science mainly of duties; while Nomology looks rather to the definition and preservation of rights.
1886 Westm. Rev. July 143 Rather what may be termed nomology, or the inductive science of law.
1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 180/1 Nomology, jural science; the science of the conformity of human actions to rules of conduct prescribed by law.
1923 Jrnl. Philos. 20 54 Most abstract of all is the theory of law itself (nomology), which involves nothing but bare relations of dependence.
2000 Emerging Markets Datafile (Xinhua) (Nexis) 15 Aug. The new QTL [= Qualification Test of Lawyer] provision stipulates 14 test subjects, including constitution, nomology, system and practice of lawyer.
Derivatives
noˈmologist n. rare an expert in or student of nomology.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > [noun] > laws governing faculties > student of
nomologist1886
1886 Westm. Rev. July 135 Parental love is a fact which nomologists must accept as a datum.
1989 Amer. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 33 146 Clearly, in Tocqueville's opinion, both nomologists and ideographs, both exclusive emphases on universal causes or particular accidents are wrong.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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