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Etymology

Etymology tree English methodological Middle English -ly English -ly English methodologically From methodological + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a methodological manner.
   • The court scrutinized expert testimony purporting to establish spiritual abuse and found it methodologically flawed. It held that subjective distress alone does not constitute legal harm. 2026 July 6, Massimo Introvigne, “Global Anti-Cultism and the Return of “Brainwashing” Theories”, in Bitter Winter:
2. (qualifier:domain) From the perspective of methodology.
   • Since it is methodologically desirable that a test of an hypothesis should be as stringent as possible, the strongest possible logic should be used in deriving consequences from the hypothesis, so that its class of potential falsifiers should be as inclusive as possible. 1974, Susan Haack, Deviant Logic: some philosophical issues:
   • We first provide one example of a study with serious methodological limitations, and then give greater attention to methodologically superior studies. 2006, Paul D. Hastings, Johanna Vyncke, Caroline Sullivan, Kelly E. McShane, Michael Benibgui, William Utendale, Children's Development of Social Competence Across Family Types:
   • Methodologically, Wiktionary represents an implementation of the descriptive approach to linguistics and specifically to grammar.
   • Once these things have been decided, collecting the real world data will be, methodologically, fairly simple. 1992, Frank Hutson Gregory, Logic and Meaning in Conceptual Models: Implications for Information System Design:

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pt metodologicamente (in a methodological manner) · it metodologicamente (in a methodological manner) · de methodologisch (in a methodological manner)