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Nomology vs Nosology - What's the difference?

nomology | nosology |

As nouns the difference between nomology and nosology

is that nomology is the study of laws while nosology is a treatise or written classification of diseases.

nomology

English

Noun

(nomologies)
  • The study of laws
  • The study of general physical and logical laws
  • The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.
  • Derived terms

    *nomological

    nosology

    Noun

    (nosologies)
  • A treatise or written classification of diseases.
  • The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
  • The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
  • *2003': Thomas Arnold [...] constructed a '''nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, ''Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)