Sentence examples for causes of nature from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of his treatise of Meteorology, Aristotle summarizes his preceding research: he has established the four causes of nature and dealt with all natural motion in Physics.

Perhaps the largest causes of nature destruction in Europe over the past 40 years are the common agricultural policy on land and the common fisheries policy at sea.

Yet, this is exactly the criticism that Descartes leveled at Galileo's physics (in a letter to Mersenne from 1638): "without having considered the first causes of nature, [Galileo] has merely looked for the explanations of a few particular effects, and he has thereby built without foundations" (AT II 380; see, also, the Preface to the French translation of the Principles, AT IXB 5 11).

Taxonomies are human decisions imposed upon nature – theories about the causes of nature's order [ 14].

Appeal to natural teleology may justify the assumption of an intelligent cause of nature, but it cannot justify the assumption that this cause has wisdom, let alone that it is infinite in every respect, and in particular supremely wise (§85, 441).

On this point, she is squarely in opposition to Voltaire who suggests that we should not search for, in his words, "sufficient causes" in nature for natural phenomena; rather we should bear in mind that the first cause of nature's activities is to be referred to God's will and power.[8] It is enough to appeal to this as the source of phenomena, and then leave it at that.

B&Q was one of the leaders who made it happen, and remains a champion for the cause of nature in how businesses work.

Even as it moved from the gentility of Muir's time to the militancy of Mr. Brower, the Sierra Club attracted favorable notice from more traditional conservationists with its handsomely illustrated books, which argued the cause of nature with photographs.

This cause of nature would have to be God since it must have both understanding and will.

Therefore, we must conclude that the highest good is impossible, unless we postulate "the existence of a cause of nature, distinct from nature, which contains the ground of this connection, namely the exact correspondence of happiness with morality" (5:125).

He reasons that, given the resemblance between nature, which displays in many respects a "curious adaptation of means to ends", and a man-made machine, we must infer the cause of nature to be an intelligence like ours, though greater in proportion as nature surpasses in perfection the products of human intelligence.