Adjective : a natural bridge. ,Growth is a natural process. ,natural beauty. ,conducting natural experiments. ,natural food; natural ingredients. ,natural ability. ,a natural result of his greed. ,a natural manner. ,a natural courtesy to strangers. ,It was natural that he should hit back. ,natural justice. ,a natural son. ,a natural representation. ,the natural man. ,a natural fool. ,natural wood; natural cowhide. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : an ointment containing mink oil and other naturals. From Dictionary.com.
Thus, nonnatural interventions are not, strictly speaking, violations of laws of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles] Reference
Nor can it be undermined, assuming we can distinguish natural from nonnatural occurrences. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles] Reference
It's a Catch-22 fueled in part by its own fierce marketing of nonnatural products over the years. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Grass Is Made Greener] Reference
Recombinant DNA was primitive at first, and controversial because of its potential to create nonnatural organisms. From Wordnik.com. [The Nature of Technology] Reference
The mass suicide is known as the single greatest loss of civilian life in America by a nonnatural disaster until 9/11. From Wordnik.com. [God Attachment] Reference
The basic problems unambigious delineation, in FL terms of demanding nonnatural creators and giving nonfalsifiable creation is the same. From Wordnik.com. [Yet more desperation at the DI - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
That transporter-type radiation can be coming only from a nonnatural source, which means an intelligent life form somewhere nearby, which may mean an inhabited planet. From Wordnik.com. [The Abode of Life] Reference
For the theist the fact that "X is wrong" will be explained, and partially analysed, in terms of (even if not reducible to) nonnatural facts about God's will and nature. From Wordnik.com. [Pantheism] Reference
The next consequence in line with your idea is that we can use discovered general conservation laws on energy and probability as a falsifiable test for nonnatural causes. From Wordnik.com. [Should Science Pursue Methodological Supernaturalism? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
And, for the pantheist the fact that "X is wrong" will be explained, and partially analysed, in terms of (even if not reducible to) nonnatural facts about the divine Unity. From Wordnik.com. [Pantheism] Reference
You have no problem with a nonnatural born Kenyan in the white house (NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE NOT MY PRESIDENT!!!!!!) but you go nuts over a brilliant woman with strong views. From Wordnik.com. [Powell calls Palin a 'fascinating figure'] Reference
Contraceptive use has risen dramatically over the past decade; according to U.N. data, 62 percent of married or "in union" women of reproductive age are now using some form of nonnatural birth control. From Wordnik.com. [BIRTH DEARTH] Reference
A law of nature is, whatever else it may be, a true description of both the physically and logically possible occurrences within its scope, in the actual world only if it is assumed that no nonnatural forces could exist or interfere. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles] Reference
Those who regard beauty as a property divide on the question whether it is a natural property, explain - able in psychophysical terms, or a nonnatural property, supervening upon the object, but having a transcendent status, like a Platonic Idea. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It is to deal with the possibility of miracles in the most superficial of ways by defining them out of existence using either an indefensible concept of a law of nature, or supposing a suppressed argument against the possibility of nonnatural interference. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles] Reference
However, suppose the laws of nature are regarded as non-universal or incomplete in the sense that while they cover natural events, they do not cover, and are not intended to cover, nonnatural events such as supernaturally caused events if there are or could be any. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles] Reference
As Robert Adams has suggested, given the serious difficulties present in understanding moral properties as natural properties, it is worthwhile taking seriously the hypothesis that morality is not just a nonnatural matter but a supernatural one (Adams 1973, p. 105). From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
Both theists and nontheists have been impressed by the weirdness of normativity, with its very otherness, and have thought that whatever we say about normativity, it will have to be a story not about natural properties but nonnatural ones (cf. Moore 1903, section 13). From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
Presumably, a deontologist can be a moral realist of either the natural (moral properties are identical to natural properties) or nonnatural (moral properties are not themselves natural properties even if they are nonreductively related to natural properties) variety. From Wordnik.com. [Deontological Ethics] Reference
Though Moore regards this as establishing the simple nonnatural char - acter of good, and a domain of values intuitively grasped as having a worth independent of whatever the actual state of existence may be, it is more plausible to see his argument as establishing the permanent possibility of critical evaluation for any proposed con - tent. From Wordnik.com. [RIGHT AND GOOD] Reference
Road accidents are "the largest cause of nonnatural death among U.S. citizens overseas," said Betsy L. Anderson, a senior consular official at the State Department. From Wordnik.com. [Streetsblog New York City] Reference
To overcome this barrier, we will expand the metabolic capabilities of bacteria to biosynthesize various nonnatural metabolites that are useful biofuels, bulk chemicals and pharmaceuticals. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
The opposing position holds that materialist / naturalist explanations are insufficient for at least some of what we know about reality; dualism, which allows for nonnatural reality of some sort, provides better explanations of at least some phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Christian] Reference
(G.E. Moore inflated Sidgwick's point into the discovery of a distinct nonnatural property of goodness. From Wordnik.com. [Pleasure] Reference
I’m using an embedding into nonnatural phenomena, the prediction being that they do not obey energy conservation for example. From Wordnik.com. [Owens-Fink vs. Kenneth Miller - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
He’s also managing to artfully mix up the deigned-undesigned and natural-nonnatural for which read supernaturalterminology again. From Wordnik.com. [A Blind Eye towards reality - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"construction" describe complex rational human activities and therefore are "nonnatural" in the sense in which the products and processes that are produced by human activities are. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Theory Blog] Reference
This ‘sieve’ would let one conclude in a common manner once and for all that the best first order theory is that nonnatural including the not defined supernatural stuff doesn’t exist. From Wordnik.com. [Should Science Pursue Methodological Supernaturalism? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
” An event may be contrary to a law of nature without thereby invalidating it if it is caused by nonnatural forces - or in epistemic terms, if its occurrence can only be correctly explained in terms of nonnatural forces. From Wordnik.com. [Miracles] Reference
For the standard objections against understanding normativity as a nonnatural property concern our inability to say anything further about that nonnatural property itself and about our ability to grasp that property (see, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
“nonnatural”) from those (which he called. From Wordnik.com. [Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value] Reference
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