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Monist [R]

The intermediate department [of heuretic science], called cenoscopy, does not attempt to discover new phenomena but only analyzes those truths that are known and acknowledged by everybody.

Intermediate between the nomological and the descriptive sciences are the classificatory sciences, vast departments of industry which study not merely things existing like the descriptive sciences, nor yet merely what never can be found, like the nomological sciences, but what general kinds of objects are to be found or made under given circumstances.

…the Descriptive Sciences […] study individual events and individually existent objects, seeking, first, to describe them minutely, and then to explain how they come to have the described peculiarities.

The third department [of heuretic science], called idioscopy, embraces all those kinds of investigation which are occupied in bringing to light phenomena previously unknown and which having discovered these phenomena use the same observational methods to push the study of them further.

…there is a sort of idioscopy which studies those elements of phenomena which are ubiquitous throughout the universe studied, — be this universe the physical or the psychical. It may be called Nomology, the science of the laws of the universe in question.

[Tactic science] prepares known truth for application by collecting it, arranging it, digesting it, generalizing what has been left fragmentary, and establishing the true theory of the history of science.