Nomological Networks of Cumulative Evidence
Nomological networks of cumulative evidence, based on sequential sampling, are an epistemological strategy to support a given scientific explanation for a particular phenomenon.
It is accomplished by identifying many sources of data (evidence) across different disciplines, using different methodologies, using varying measurement tools, across different cultures, and across many time periods.
In doing so, the cumulative evidence might pass a (supporting) stopping threshold which marks the point at which the decision-maker is sufficiently convinced of the explanation offered.
References
- Edited from "The Epistemology of Evolutionary Psychology Offers a Rapprochement to Cultural Psychology" by Gad Saad.