in rerum natura
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Many of them express relations of terms to which nothing exactly or nothing at all in rerum natura corresponds.
From Meno by Jowett, Benjamin
TRUE: How does my noble captain? is the bull, bear, and horse in rerum natura still?
From Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Jonson, Ben
So that, for aught we know, all we see, hear, and feel may be only phantom and vain chimera, and not at all agree with the real things existing in rerum natura.
From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley, George
Tom Otter's bull, bear, and horse is known all over England, in rerum natura.
From Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Jonson, Ben
Divinum autem esse est absque additione, non solum cogitatione, sed etiam in rerum natura; et non solum absque additione, sed absque receptibilitate additionis.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
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