To Naville the science of laws (nomology) is fundamental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But we also know that a rewriting of that nomology may be required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

For some readers, certainly, this may be sufficient to breach nomology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

In the nomology of the Western it has no place, it doesn't make sense, it "could not be".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Or are we dealing with something that requires a complete revision of our nomology, an anomaly?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One"] Reference

It does not contradict the consensus nomology we think of as the "laws of reality" but is rather explicable by that nomology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

As genre readers we know that this sort of strangeness may have a rational explanation, may not be an actual breach of our nomology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

If we take that "archaic" nomology as a starting point, all of this story functions on a subjunctivity level of "could have happened".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

It entirely contradicts the consensus nomology we think of as the "laws of reality" and forces us to revise our certainty in that nomology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

In the first class considered by Naville, following nomology are mathematics, physics, chemistry, somatic biology, psychology, and sociology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

No -- we are being implicitly reminded in this seemingly innocuous piece of exposition -- our nomology can be changed radically, has been in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

It's not an apparent breach of our nomology in the sense of the "laws of reality", not "fantastic" in the Todorovian sense, but it breaches the nomology of the Western.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

They offer the get-out clauses, cyclic arguments and cover stories by which we construct and sustain an artificial sense of contingency, of a potential alternative nomology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

In all of this, there is nothing that is strange in terms of breaching our nomology, the reference to "the oracle", with no demonstration of prophetic power, only sketching in more cultural detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

To a thematic purpose, or to force us to revise our nomology, alter our preconcieved notion of the "laws of reality" in order to reconsider whether the anomaly should actually be seen as an artifice?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

If we reject the nomology in which the spirits and divination are part of reality, it seems we're left with little reason to deny the robot empathy; in a materialist world we're just the meat versions of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Only in the oracle's interruption, answering the supplicant's question as Jokla is only just about to relate it to her, do we have the suggestion of a potential breach of nomology, and even here it is ambiguous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

If we accept that nomology, however, we're also wrong to deny it; Fate is telling us the robot has a right to live (and to kill, it seems, hinting to a bloodier and more honest paganism under the idyll of sprites).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Which is to say, as often as not the conceptual dislocation is literalised, concretised in the notion of an actual alterior realm with a different nomology (different laws of nature) to those on which our world is run.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams] Reference

There's also the more self-conscious and deliberate indecision where the anomalous is explicable as an artifice of the nomology of narrative itself, a product of those "laws of reality" that cover the use of extended metaphor in fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

There is an issue here of how strange fiction might have had that technique of breaching nomology as an aesthetic purpose before our scientific worldview redefined not just the terms of that nomology but the basis of how we construct it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

So, recently the idea that the low energy nomology of our world, and therefore also the observable phenomenology, could be the result of an anthropic selection from a vast arena of nomologically different scenarios entered string theory.    From Wordnik.com.  ["String theory" is no theory at all] Reference

There's the conventionality of the trope, as I've argued previously, where the anomaly is explicable by an alternative consensus nomology to the one we live our lives by, where it is recognised as an artifice of the form, for the sake of a good story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

This is presented as a deliberate strangeness -- "if we showed you something straight-up impossible right up front, it would save time trying to convince you I'm telling the truth" -- a twisting of nomology in order to demonstrate a seriousness of intent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One"] Reference

Leaving aside the whole question of nature spirits with machines for vessels, prophetic knowledge of the future would be another breach of nomology for many (if not most), potentially invoking another shift in subjunctivity level to "could not have happened".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

So the strange becomes the novum of SF, with this conflict of subjunctivities creating a more palpable type of cognitive dissonance between the nomology in which the events presented "could not have happened" and the nomology in which they "could have happened".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

The oracle's answer doesn't quite read as a breach of nomology; when she says, no, he has another seven years of exile to suffer, we could rationalise the oracle's abilities as psychological insight rather than predictive foresight, a knowledge less of the future than of what needs to be said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

We might still insist that the whole concept of machines invested with nature spirits is a breach of the laws of reality, a breach of nomology, that these events "could not have happened", but we must be pretty rigid in our scientific nomology -- maybe even rigid to the point of scientistic -- to deny this any rationality at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

If others have used the conceit before us then the conventionality it accrues also makes it easier to swallow, situating it in its own ersatz nomology (hence the acceptance of FTL as a tradition of how the world works within genre SF, and hence the growing popularity of tropes like wormholes, stargates and jump-points as a more recent tradition).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

In fact, part of the reason I replaced Todorov's term uncanny with creepy in my own model, is that I think talk of the uncanny often carries a sense of angst felt in the face of the truly unknown -- i.e. when we are faced with a strange-and-creepy event so alien we are not even able to decide whether it fits our nomology or not, whether it is artifice or anomaly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

The plausibility of the novum is crucial in this type of SF because the argument being made in these narratives is that the ruling paradigm, the accepted nomology in which the events of the narrative "could not have happened", is false, and that the hypothetical nomology, the alternative paradigm in which the events "could have happened", is in a very real sense, a truth of temporal possibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Actually I think there is scope here for investigating nomology as a non-scientific sense of possibility, investigating the way beliefs in Natural, Social or Divine order might also have functioned (and might still do) to construct "laws of reality" -- looking at the ancient concept of "miasma" as a breaching of those laws, for example, and a breaching that is integral to the narratives of Greek Tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

Hamilton holds that empirical psychology, or the phenomenology of mind, treats of the facts of consciousness, rational psychology, or the nomology of mind, treats of the laws of mental phenomena, and metaphysics, or inferential psychology, treats of the results derived from the study of the facts and laws of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

It is not just described like Peake's Gormenghast, as on a scale that renders it of dubious possibility ( "Nobody had ever seen the whole of The City, because you could start walking from one end to the other and die of old age before you explored every basement and tower."), but in fact posited as a breach of nomology at the most basic spatio-temporal level ( "Inside some of the oldest buildings, space and time didn't work the way they did elsewhere").    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One"] Reference

What I mean is, I don't think it's so much a shift in the nomology of the general SF readership that makes ESP and FTL too "magical" for the general readership as a whole, but rather a splintering of the readership itself whereby subsets of readers with more or less flexible nomologies, more or less accepting of fringe science (ESP), or purely conventional tropes (FTL), or implausible conceits (c.f. ROADMARKS) have become more consolidated in reaction to each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative Grammars] Reference

Is this a contradiction of the nomology in which spirits can be stolen from trees and bound into automobiles, or an enrichening of it?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

I am suggesting we do this by using nomoi to refer to “commands from a lawgiver to the public who is obliged to obey them”, praxis for what legal practitioners , do, and perhaps a third term, nomology, for the academic field of just just the subject matter of law schools, but the larger subject of “laws” of all kinds, perhaps restricting it to the field studied in law schools by a qualifier like domestic, municipal, civil, or some other suchterm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Conceptions of Constitutionality — More Thoughts In Reply to Randy:] Reference