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. See nomological, natural law
   a system of morality conceived of as grounded in reason See natural law nomological
3. See law
   See law 1

Example Sentences

To the law-of-nature school, lawmaking was but an absolute development of absolute principles.

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