Sentences with phrase «natural as a physical object»

If I define something to be natural as a physical object / processes following rules that can be described very closely and repeatedly mathematically, then supernatural is a physical object / process that defies that definition.

Not exact matches

For when Santayana explains what it is for an essence to be exemplified, or for a truth to be about something, he typically talks of their instances or objects as «facts,» meaning by this some particular bit of the natural world as it is at a specific time and place (as it is directly if physical or derivatively if mental).

This is not to close the door between the laboratory and the sacristy, rather the opposite; what we discover from the natural sciences can not be hermetically sealed off from philosophy and theology as though it were some totally separate area of wisdom.If the primary object of physical science is the physical realm in its inter-dependant relationships, the object of metaphysics is the very same physical realm as it relates to the spiritual.

To this might be added the ability to use complex physical theory to study natural objects — for example, that involved in the X-ray diffraction techniques used to determine the structure of large molecules such as proteins.

Giese views his artistic project as one of repair and re-presentation of natural objects; he employs processes that echo nature's slow and repetitive rhythms as he reconstructs pieces of the physical world in his sculptures and installations.

The subjects of her films and videos reveal their close physical connections to their environments, sites marked by legacies of colonial trade and military occupation in the artist's homeland of Puerto Rico, by recounting stories and engaging natural materials as well as inherited or handmade objects.

Although policies vary, most plans will cover direct physical loss of personal property if damaged by fire and smoke, natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, lightning, windstorms or hail storms, snow, ice or sleet damage, riot or civil commotion, vandalism or theft, falling objects, discharge or overflow of water or steam (often caused by faulty plumbing, freezing, cracking or burning of certain systems or appliances and damage from artificially generated electric current.