Sentence examples for natural philosophy from inspiring English sources
noun
The objective study of nature in the widest sense; science, (later especially) physics.
Specifically, Maritain writes, natural philosophy penetrates to the nature of its object.
On the natural philosophy of elementary particles.
Science was once natural philosophy and psychology sat alongside metaphysics.
Also influential were his psychology, logic, and natural philosophy.
With a bent for natural philosophy, a minor evolutionist.
Or should we instead go back to calling their endeavors natural philosophy?
A BA course in natural philosophy may have different aims from a BSc in forensic investigation.
He is, after all, a physician, and schooled in the confident theories of "natural philosophy".
For this natural philosophy, the Arabs coined the word falsafa, and called its practitioners falasifa.
The overall division of the Opus maius is Platonic/Stoic: language study, natural philosophy/mathematics, morals.
A Dialogue on Natural Philosophy (Dragmaticon philosophiae, c.1148).
