How To Use Nomothetic In A Sentence

Both can contribute to scientific approach - idiographic suited to description; nomothetic to predictions. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
What I am here to say shall not derogate anything from his Highness’s supremacy, because it includeth no such thing as a nomothetical power to prescribe and appoint such sacred and significant ceremonies as he shall think good. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
“Island biogeography has changed in a decade,” Simberloff wrote, “from an idiographic discipline with few organizing principles to a nomothetic science with predictive general laws.” The Song of The Dodo
I believe the distinction by Wilhelm Dilthey between "nomothetic" (= positing laws) and "idiographic" (= describing individuals) sciences, is still much more fruitful than other approaches that tend to blur the dividing line. Demarcation, Demarcation, ….
To achieve scientific, nomothetic goals in the information disciplines, we should focus on the technological, demographic, environmental and economic conditions that motivate and constrain people operating in social groups.

Existentialism, in its broadest terms, is both idiographic and nomothetic - it is about personal will and humanity.
Two approaches can be complementary - idiographic can further develop a nomothetic law. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
It's also worth stating that one of the theoretical approaches associated with ethnographic research is an idiographic, rather than nomothetic, approach to data -- a concern with the particular, rather than the general. Anti Anti-Anecdotalism
When combined with data from records and interviews, nomothetic information from sound psychological tests increases the chances of convergent validity and decreases the possibility of error.
The Ballzheimer's cup first round must remain undecided, as both present maximal claims within their respective (nomothetic vs idiographic re: wars) approaches. Le joueur prussien
Existentialism, in its broadest terms, is both idiographic and nomothetic - it is about personal will and humanity.
The clinical ramifications of this entire exercise should be placed within a context that includes both nomothetic and ideographic dimensions.
Hence, given that historians make such claims ‘it behooves them to make sure that the cited nomothetic principles have an empirical foundation’.
Qualitative research may be idiographic or nomothetic. The Bass Handbook of Leadership