The natural sciences are nomothetic, whereas the humanities are idiographic.
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Idiographic
Synonyms for "idiographic"
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5 translations across 5 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- idiografinen adj (Translations)
German
1 entries- idiographisch adj (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- idiografico adj (Translations)
Russian
1 entries- идиографи́ческий adj (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- idiográfico adj (Translations)
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Dr Esterson's next book, The Leaves of Spring - a Study in the Dialectics of Madness, is an illuminating idiographic study, devoted for the major part to the painstaking, detailed study of a patient and her family, investigated and treated as the interacting elements of a unity.
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