Talk:Nomothetic and idiographic

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i thought nomothetic was deductive... "a tendency to generalize" or "deriving laws" is inductive. similarly, i thought idiographic was inductive, not deductive. of course, the whole inductive vs. deductive "binary" is problematic at best, since it ignores its companion retroduction/abduction.