kinology

Kinology differs from mechanics in that it emphasizes explanations in terms of formal and final causes, and resists separating the formal aspects of motion from the bodies moved.

1956, Robert Lincoln Harder, Jr., Copernicus, Galileo, and ideal conditions, page 8

Inquiries into such conditions will give rise to two fields related to graphemics, namely, kinology and phanology, which deal respectively with the kinetic aspect of sign production and the visual aspect of its cognition ( Watt 1984, 103, 147).

1992, Modern Chinese Literature - Volumes 6-7, page 133

Looking back at the protolanguage from the vantagepoint of (adult-like) language we can say that it has a semantics and a phonology (or kinology: the expression may be any combination of vocal and gestural) but no (lexico-)grammar.

1995, Sture Allen, Of Thoughts And Words

Also his izology (the science that should study the genesis and evolution of modern arts) would concern itself with deviations from the “norm” that occur in the “organism” of the painter or in the “body” of a work of art, and the fluid interconnection between the conscious and the subconscious; and kinology (the same for the film) brings to mind another contemporary coinage, “pedology”: a science studying ways and methods of influencing the child’s psyche, which was actively developed by Soviet psychologists in the 1920s under a strong impact of psychoanalysis.

2022, Oksana Bulgakowa, “Malevich in the movies: Kisses, sensations, or five paradoxes”, in K. Revue trans-europé enne de philosophie et arts

She usually writes the story herself, for she knows everybody within 25 miles of the courthouse, and is the town authority on kinology.

1909 December 11, “Laura M. French”, in Editor & Publisher, volume 9, page 7

[…] a numbering system that takes care of collateral lines and handles kinology as well as genealogy;

1984, Paul Arthur Andereck, Genealogical Computing--the Beginning, page 3-2

These criteria and sub-criteria were obtained based on collected and processed data from a primary data source that was the dog kinology information from the FCI and AKC as the leading world dog registries to obtain standardization of information on physical and psychological characteristics of each breed.

2020, Phie Chyan, “Design of Purebred Dog Recommendation System Using MCDM Approach”, in Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, volume 5, number 5

One of the first things that a new reporter on our paper has to learn is the kinology of the town.

2022, William Allen White, In Our Town