Because that which is normal and usual is also considered as natural, miracles have occasionally been defined as supernatural events, but this definition presupposes a very specific conception of nature and natural laws and cannot, therefore, be generally applied.
Modern physics, while leaving mechanistic explanations of certain natural phenomena intact, shattered the overall mechanistic conception of nature.
The Platonic identification of the good with the real and the Aristotelian teleological understanding of natural things are both difficult to square with the Enlightenment conception of nature.
Like much traditional Chinese religious thought, Mohist beliefs are in effect an extension of the social and political system to incorporate relations with a personified conception of nature and various sentient, intelligent entities with whom humans share the natural world.
The Physicist's Conception of Nature.
Under the influence of the Hermetic tradition, his conception of nature underwent a decisive change.
The "Quaestiones" reveal that Newton had discovered the new conception of nature that provided the framework of the scientific revolution.
Chugoku bungaku ni arawareta shizen to shizenkan (Nature and the Conception of Nature as Expressed in Chinese Literature).
Reviews Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel.
Led by Descartes, philosophers had begun to formulate a new conception of nature as an intricate, impersonal, and inert machine.
This article examines the representational practices by which geographers have, through the centuries, helped create the modern conception of nature.
