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adj. - Relating to or involving the study of individuals.

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Usage examples (6)
  • 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...
  • I believe the distinction by Wilhelm Dilthey between "nomothetic" (= positing laws) and "idiographic" (= describing individuals) sciences, is still much more fruitful...
  • Two approaches can be complementary - idiographic can further develop a nomothetic law.
  • Both can contribute to scientific approach - idiographic suited to description; nomothetic to predictions.
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