Sentence examples for operation of nature from inspiring English sources
In Sade's philosophy, where the essential operation of Nature is not procreation but destruction, murder is natural and morally acceptable.
He appeals to authority and everyday observation ("experimentum" in Latin) and makes use of thought experiments and certain metaphysical assumptions, such as that "every operation of nature occurs in the most finite, ordered, shortest and best way possible for it" (Baur 1912, 75).
Understanding the remarkable operation of nature's biomotors has provided researchers with new insights into how to impart greater sophistication onto the performance of man-made nanomachines.
All means by which human intellection intervenes in the raw operation of nature are in some sense technologies.
"The soil of Prospect Park is not favorable to the formation of good bridle roads through the unaided and unchecked operations of nature," it read.
In place of the mechanical explanation of the operations of nature, he proposed his hypothesis of 'the Plastick Life of Nature'.
Some of the texts suggest very strongly that her social and political philosophy is informed by her view of the normal operations of nature.
Cf. Newton: "The matter of all things is one and all the same, which is transmuted into countless forms by the operations of nature".
But they repudiated mechanistic natural philosophy in favour of the view that spirit is the fundamental causal principle in the operations of nature.
(D, 12.7/218 — my emphasis) On the other hand, the atheist may allow that there is some "remote analogy" among the various operations of nature, including "the rotting of a turnip, the generation of an animal, and the structure of human thought" (D, 12.7/218).
"Our idea … of necessity and causation arises entirely from the uniformity, observable in the operations of nature; where similar objects are constantly conjoined together, and the mind is determined by custom to infer the one from the appearance of the other" (ECHU 54 55).
