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law of nature
noun
- an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- a system of morality conceived of as grounded in reason See natural law nomological
- See law 1
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Despite a recent New York Times headline that suggests this is the "new normal," the resurgence of preventable disease is not a law of nature 鈥 it's literally a choice we, as a society, are making.
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They practiced a way of living according to the laws of nature as much as possible.
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鈥淎 leader,鈥 he insisted, 鈥渋s the bravest man. This is a law of nature.鈥
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Weird stuff is happening that can鈥檛 be explained by the laws of nature, in which case our planet might be in store for a global meltdown full of crazy lava explosions and plagues of frogs.
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Trump's privilege is a social construct, not a law of nature.
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