The conventional approach places great weight on the rule-governed nature of promising.
Thus, to quote Rosier, "The rule-governed nature of language-functions is to be found not only in the common usage but also in those 'authorized' variations.
We were very much governed by nature before; we were at the mercy of our own speed and horses and the like.
The idea of an identical self that persists throughout all of our experience, on this view, arises from the law-governed regularity of nature, and our representations exhibit order and regularity because reality itself is ordered and regular.
We neither can know whether to use a Hobbesian expression again—"without us" or to use Kant's own term "in itself"—there are material objects around that consist of substances and their attributes standing in spatio-temporal or other (e.g. causal) relations to each other and constituting a law-governed whole called nature.
He conceived of nature as governed throughout by laws statable with mathematical precision; the book of nature, he said, is "written in mathematical form".
The significance of these and other discoveries was that they led to a conception of the universe as a system of matter in motion governed by laws of nature.
The sensible world is in time, governed by laws of nature and open to empirical investigation; we are capable of attaining cognition of objects in this world.
In a cosmological reading, this suggests an understanding of nature as governed by the operation of qi energies in an ideal yin-yang system characterized by harmony and fecundity.
Judicial astrology was based on the assumption that the entire world of nature was governed and directed by the movement of the heavens and the celestial bodies, and that man, as an animal naturally generated and living in the world of nature, was also naturally under their rule.
Most of these yield-contributing (seed size/weight) and stress tolerance traits targeted for chickpea genetic enhancement are complex and quantitative in nature and governed by multiple major and/or minor genes/QTLs (quantitative trait loci).
