What's the difference between nomology and noology?
Nomology
Definition:
(n.) The science of law; legislation.
(n.) The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than precipitately mediating between clinical hermeneutics and empirical nomology, a critical differentiation of both methodologies is advocated.
(2) Nonhistorical comparisons require pertinent nomological relationships between two or more variables, and include: (a) comparisons between variables used to elucidate these law-like relationships; and (b) comparisons in which unknown properties of one variable are deduced from the known properties of other variables - extrapolations made in biology.
(3) Results obtained from both nonclinical and clinical samples consistently indicate distinct nomological nets for measures of "hopelessness" and "reasons for living."
(4) We support this position since the schizophrenic's strange speech can fit into a larger view about his disordered thinking which is grounded in a nomological net involving various different types of strange behavior.
(5) The independent viability of these two explanations is evaluated in three studies that assess: (1) the distinctiveness of the nomological networks of measures of these two approaches; and (2) the latent variables that might account for any observed distinctiveness and for how two relatively independent constructs could both be related to suicide.
(6) A nomological network of relationships, in which strength and endurance factors correlated in expected directions with other physiological and demographic variables, was hypothesized and tested.
(7) The latter include expansion of the construct's nomological definitional net, inquiry into the antecedents and determinants of resilience, and the application of such generative information to frame preventive interventions for young, profoundly stressed children.
(8) The nomological validity of the Type A behavior pattern was explored.
Noology
Definition:
(n.) The science of intellectual phenomena.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to this model, behaviour appears as a hierarchical and integrated system expressing the process of its development from automatic and reactive to noologic and reflexive.