nomos
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This word comes from an immensely old Indo-European word, nomos, which refers to a fixed area, or to pasture.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Beneath the entangling personal motives, the debate is one of the oldest in the Western philosophical tradition, between nomos and physis.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Accepting the magnitude of the Indian impact on the landscape seems to push us toward the nomos side.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
To the Greek, nomos was a sacred word, but the political idealism of Plato soars into a region beyond; for the laws he would substitute the intelligent will of the legislator.
From Statesman by Plato
A leading part was here played by the sophistic distinction between nomos and physis, Law and Nature, i.e. that which is based on human convention, and that which is founded on the nature of things.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg
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