Sentence examples for natural term from inspiring English sources

As the historian Hugh Trevor-Roput put it 40 years ago, about a different regime, "A single personal despot can prolong obsolete ideas beyond their natural term, but the change of generations must ultimately carry them away".

It's time to finally drop the "natural" term when we talk about disasters.

For example, a natural term is a quadratic distance, where we essentially treat the parameters as though we have a Gaussian prior.

The new location offered an environment that was, in natural terms at least, paradisiacal.

Sanderson suavely switches city terms with natural terms, a nice touch that reminds the reader we're all creatures, after all.

Taiwan is quietly building a new port big enough to host warships on Itu Aba (also known as Taiping), in natural terms the largest of the Spratlys.

The former requires definitions in natural terms.

A methodological naturalist would insist on explaining all phenomena, however strange, in natural terms.

If the epistemic support facts are natural facts, and justification is defined in terms of evidence possessed and epistemic support, then justification is defined in entirely natural terms.

But then no definition of "good" in purely natural terms can succeed, since it cannot capture the term's action-guiding force; nor can an evaluative conclusion be validly inferred from premises none of which have such force.

Since it might be possible to arrive at ethical knowledge by means of (mere) experience if moral terms were reducible to natural terms, this provides Ross with an incentive to show that no such reduction is possible.