From the natural standpoint, the IPCC defines vulnerability as "a function of the character, magnitude and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity and its adaptive capacity" (IPCC 2001: 995).
We believe, however, that the argument is aimed precisely at Newton's (and Hume's own) use of the principle of the uniformity of nature and, therefore, that this situation brings out the mutual autonomy of Hume's two standpoints (the standpoint of radical skepticism and the natural standpoint of science and common life) especially clearly: see notes 25 and 49 below.
If one adopts the standpoint of natural deduction, then intuitionistic logic is a natural logical system.
Forests are the most important of these natural communities from the standpoint of area, carbon content, annual carbon fixation, the cycling of nutrient elements, and influence on energy and water budgets, as well as being the principal reservoir of biotic diversity on land.
Here, we have briefly reviewed the characteristics of the natural system from the standpoint of what we could learn from it to produce an efficient artificial system.
In an effort to clarify the task and method of transcendental philosophy, Fichte insisted upon the sharp distinction between the "standpoint" of natural consciousness (which it is the task of philosophy to "derive," and hence to "explain") and that of transcendental reflection, which is the standpoint required of the philosopher.
While the natural answer from the standpoint of untutored common sense is that it is public physical objects that are directly experienced, this answer — often referred to with the disparaging label "naive realism" — has been rejected by a large proportion of the philosophers who have considered this issue over the last three and one-half centuries or so.
Nor is it mysterious how this all arose from the standpoint of natural selection.
Given how many filmmakers work in television, it's certainly a natural fit from a creator standpoint, as artistic director Cameron Bailey noted in a statement.
From a biological standpoint, it appears natural that biological organisms should develop the possibility of having these transformations hard-wired or soft-wired (the latter notion meaning that a set of initial connections being trimmed after birth), since these transformations are universal.
One of the most successful natural gas cars, from a technical standpoint, was the Ford Crown Victoria, which had a trunk so large that even with natural gas tanks squeezed in, there was still space for two bags of golf clubs.
