Nomothetics

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Noun
  1. 1
    system defining laws or rules countable, rare, uncountable

    "1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. The antimony that reveals itself in the application of the law is for our limited wisdom the best way to test nomothetics[.]"

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"1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. The antimony that reveals itself in the application of the law is for our limited wisdom the best way to test nomothetics[.]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).

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