natural laws
Gravity, thermodynamics, electromagnetism
Natural laws are fundamental principles believed to govern the universe or human conduct, discoverable through reason rather than decreed by authority.
In science, natural laws describe consistent physical phenomena: the law of gravity, laws of thermodynamics.
In philosophy and ethics, natural law refers to moral principles thought to be inherent in human nature or the cosmos itself, independent of human legislation.
Natural law theorists argue that some rights exist whether governments recognize them or not.
- causalityCause-effect connection
- cause and effectHow events produce results
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- motionChange in position
relativity · speed of light · Kepler · determinism · principles · falsifiability · Newton · thermodynamics · second law · conservation · conservation of energy · fundamental · universality · lawfulness · matter · physical constants · cosmology · immutability
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
- natural philosophyphysics, mechanics, matter, motion, chemistry
- naturalismnaturalism, literary realism, realism, determinism, empiricism
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- inevitabilitiesdeath, mortality, taxes, fate, destiny
- Invisiblesair, atoms, electrons, gravity, magnetism
natural lawsstatutory law
Legislature-made legal rules
civil law · criminal law · divine law · divine commandments · social conventions
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