Regarding nomothetic and idiographic explanations in science, the text concludes that:
a. idiographic explanations are outdated.
b. nomothetic explanations are better at identifying the totality of causes at work
in a situation.
c. both are equally useful for generalizing to large populations.
d. neither is inherently better than the other and each provides a valuable, though
incomplete, route to gaining knowledge.
D
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