law of nature

noun

  1. an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals

  2. a system of morality conceived of as grounded in reason: See natural law (def. 2), nomological (def. 2)

  1. See law 1 (def. 8)

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