natural philosophy
Use Natural philosophy in a sentencenatural philosophy
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English
1425–75; late Middle English
Related forms
natural philosopher, noun
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| natural philosophy | |
| —n | |
| (now only used in Scottish universities) physical science, esp physics | |
| natural philosopher | |
| —n | |
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Natural philosophy
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
In your latest post you rightly came after first-philosophy when it comes to understanding the world, to natural philosophy.
Of course it is hypothetical natural philosophy speculation.
That's why the precursor of modern science was natural philosophy, not supernatural philosophy.
Only natural philosophy, and specifically theology, can address those questions.
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