"nomothetic" (from Greek nomos, "relating to the law")
These "focus on 'general laws' and 'general, apoditic [if-then] judgment' that seeks to define what is 'constant'" (Hayot, quoting Windelband)
see separate note on "idiographic disciplines"
the "nomoethetic [sic?] / ideographic distinction: goes back to the "relationship which Socrates recognized as the fundamental nexus of all scientific thought: the relationship of the general to the particular" (Windelband)