nomothetics
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).
Noun
nomothetics (countable and uncountable, plural nomothetics)
- (philosophy, rare) system defining laws or rules
- 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[.]
- 1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press.
Related terms
- nomothetic
- nomothetical