Sentence examples for conceptions of nature from inspiring English sources

Through the decades the films have embraced different classic conceptions of nature, Mr. Whitley argues.

Lederman is internationally known for his research on students' and teachers' conceptions of nature of science and scientific inquiry.

As a TA for Intro to Environmental Studies, I guided students in learning and writing about cultural conceptions of nature, the history of conservation philosophy, and ecological science.

Typically translated into English as “vital energy,” qi has long been at the core of traditional Chinese conceptions of nature, the cosmos, and the human body.

"Ecologism versus Moralism: Conceptions of Nature in Some Literary Texts of Ming-Qing Times". In Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History, eds.

In one of the more fanciful conceptions of nature, the British physicist and philosopher Julian Barbour proposed that the world is just a "heap of moments," each an instant of frozen time.

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.

Not surprisingly, Malebranche also has some theologically motivated reasons for rejecting such rich conceptions of natures as well.

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.