| The clinical ramifications of this entire exercise should be placed within a context that includes both nomothetic and ideographic dimensions. |
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| This applies to the gap between idiographic and nomothetic approaches, or between historical and social science fields of study. |
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| Thus Windelband proposed that the natural sciences are nomothetic and the historical or cultural sciences ideographic. |
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| Although both approaches have added to the understanding of motivational processes, the nomothetic approach has dominated motivational research. |
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| The objectivist approach to social science is rooted in an ontology of realism, a positivist epistemology, a deterministic conception of human nature, and a nomothetic methodology. |
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| Dilthey rejects Windelband's distinction by showing that many natural sciences have ideographic elements and many human sciences such as linguistics and economics have nomothetic aims. |
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| Nomothetic and ideographic research procedures clarify populations and individuals, respectively. |
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