law of nature
Britishnoun
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an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
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a system of morality conceived of as grounded in reason See natural law nomological
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See law 1
Example Sentences
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The ghost has broken the laws of nature but she’s still treated like a cog in the system.
From Los Angeles Times
"We are not just building an experiment; we are opening a new window into the laws of nature," the team notes.
From Science Daily
"This new geometric point of view on the dark energy problem opens up new possibilities for better understanding the laws of nature in the cosmos."
From Science Daily
This allows scientists to study matter at its most basic level and test the fundamental laws of nature.
From Science Daily
Americans had to conceptualize their liberation in alignment with the laws of nature.
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