Definition of "nomological" []

• Pertaining to or expressing general laws that lack logical necessity. (adjective)

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• "The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl (1958) calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law."
• "She explains their more or less general domain of application in terms of causal capacities and arrangements she calls nomological machines (Cartwright 1989; Cartwright 1999)."
• "This way, one might have interaction yet preserve a kind of nomological closure, in the sense that no laws are infringed."