The Collaborative International Dictionary
Methodological \Meth`od*o*log"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to methodology.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, from methodology + -ical. Related: Methodologically.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or using methodology
WordNet
adj. relating to the methodology of some discipline; "methodological errors"
Usage examples of "methodological".
If the key methodological step was to be the isolation of neurons and glia, perhaps I could find another route to the same end.
Questions like these are often highly embarrassing because there are no definite methodological principles on which to base such an analysis.
In trying to deal with these problems I have tried to deal with three main aspects of my own contemporary reality that seem to me to point the way out of the methodological or perspectival difficulties I have been discussing, difficulties that might force one, in the first instance, into writing a coarse polemic on so unacceptably general a level of description as not to be worth the effort, or in the second instance, into writing so detailed and atomistic a series of analyses as to lose all track of the general lines of force informing the field, giving it its special cogency.
In a previous book I gave a good deal of thought and analysis to the methodological importance for work in the human sciences of finding and formulating a first step, a point of departure, a beginning principle.
In this underlying conviction and in its ensuing methodological consequences do I differ from scholars who study the history of ideas.
To investigate Orientalism is also to propose intellectual ways for handling the methodological problems that history has brought forward, so to speak, in its subject matter, the Orient.
Europe since the Council of Vienne, there was a self-conscious methodological principle at work as a coeval with scholarly discipline.
Of few such enormous enterprises can it be true, as it is of this one, that ideas and methodological intelligence are almost entirely absent from it.
In each study, however, the investigators concluded that methodological flaws had led to the negative results.
This was probably because she did not understand the strict methodological limits that dictated how literal he, a doctor, had to be with the admits on the psych ward.
It used scientific methods to study the natural world’s history, and in many ways that history was just as problematic a methodological problem as human history, being likewise nonrepeatable and resistant to experiment.