Encyclopedia - Natural: Encyclopedia - Natural
Natural is defined as "of or relating to nature"; this applies to both definitions of 'nature': 'essence' ("one's true nature") and 'the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism: Encyclopedia - Naturalism
"Naturalism" refers to a number of different topics: Naturalism (philosophy) is any of several philosophical stances which do not claim ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature: Encyclopedia - Nature
Nature (also called the material world, the material universe, the natural world, and the natural universe) is all matter and energy, esp...   » Read the article

Article - Buddha-nature
Buddha-nature (originally in Sanskrit, "Buddha-dhatu" - "Buddha Element", "Buddha-Principle") is a doctrine important for many schools of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Disaster: Encyclopedia - Natural Disaster
A natural disaster is a catastrophe that occurs when a hazardous physical event (such as a volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide, hurr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Hygiene: Encyclopedia - Natural Hygiene
Natural Hygiene is a branch of alternative medicine that claims to provide "all the life requirements brought to bear upon the living org...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Health: Encyclopedia - Natural Health
In alternative medicine, natural health is an eclectic self-care system of "natural therapies" concerned with building and restoring heal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Compressed Natural Gas: Encyclopedia - Compressed Natural Gas
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is a substitute for gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel. It is considered to be an environmentally "clean" alte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Gas: Encyclopedia - Natural Gas
Natural gas (commonly referred to as gas in many countries, but note that gas is also an American and Canadian shortening of gasoline) is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - On The Nature Of Things: Encyclopedia - On The Nature Of Things
Not to be confused with The Nature of Things, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television show about natural science. On the Nature of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Law: Encyclopedia - Natural Law
The natural law or law of nature is a system of justice that exists independently of the positive law of a given political order. Its usa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mother Nature: Encyclopedia - Mother Nature
Mother Nature is a mythical personification of nature. Images of women representing "mother" earth, and mother nature, are timeless. Long...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Immigration And Naturalization Service: Encyclopedia - Immigration And Naturalization Service
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was a part of the United States Department of Justice which used to handle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adaptation And Natural Selection: Encyclopedia - Adaptation And Natural Selection
Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American George C. Williams on ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Addition Of Natural Numbers: Encyclopedia - Addition Of Natural Numbers
Addition of natural numbers is the most basic arithmetic operation. In its simplest form, addition combines two numbers (terms, summands)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Selection: Encyclopedia - Natural Selection
Natural selection is the name Charles Darwin gave to the principal process through which new species emerge, or evolve. Combined with Gre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uranus' Natural Satellites: Encyclopedia - Uranus' Natural Satellites
Uranus has 27 known moons. The first two moons (Titania and Oberon) were discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 1787. Two more moons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddha-nature: Encyclopedia - Buddha-nature
Buddha-nature (originally in Sanskrit, "Buddha-dhatu" - "Buddha Element", "Buddha-Principle") is a doctrine important for many schools of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Nature - Scientific Divisions Of Nature
Nature - Nature outside Earth and its atmosphere. Events and phenomena outside Earth and its atmosphere are in the natural science of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Law Party: Encyclopedia - Natural Law Party
The Natural Law Party is a trans-national political party with national branches in over 80 countries. The party is the political arm of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Nature - Philosophy Of Nature
Nature - Metaphysics. In philosophy, the view that the material world of atoms, animals, gravity, stars, wind, microbes, etc., actually...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Nature - Beauty In Nature
The writer Steven Fry has commented that if we look around us, anything ugly that we see will have been created by human hands; this exem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalization: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalization - Different Naturalization Laws
Naturalization - Early examples. There had always been a distinction in English law between the subjects of the monarch and aliens: the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalization: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalization - Different Naturalization Laws
Naturalization - Early examples. There had always been a distinction in English law between the subjects of the monarch and aliens: the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Philosophy - Methodological Naturalism Versus Ontological Naturalism
There is a distinct difference between an ontological approach to naturalism and a methodological assumption of naturalism. Ontology is a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Philosophy - Criticism Of Naturalism
Critics of naturalism claim that the possibility of supernatural action is unnecessarily excluded by the current practices and theories o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Philosophy - Methodological Naturalism Versus Ontological Naturalism
There is a distinct difference between a methodological assumption of naturalism and an ontological approach. Methodology relates to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Philosophy - Naturalism And Philosophy Of Mind
There is currently some dispute over whether naturalism rules out certain areas of philosophy altogether, such as semantics, ethics, aest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Philosophy - Naturalism As Epistemology
W. V. Quine describes naturalism as the position that there is no higher tribunal for truth than natural science itself. There is no bett...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature Innate: Encyclopedia Ii - Nature Innate - Nature Versus Nurture
Main article: Nature versus nurture. Nature versus nurture is a popular phrase used to describe debates over the relative degrees to whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Philosophy - Figures In Natural Philosophy
While proposals for a much more 'inquisitive' and practical approach to the study of nature originated with Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Transformation - Operations With Natural Transformations
If η : F → G and ε : G → H are natural transformations between functors F,G:C → D, then we can compose them to get a na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Nature - Related Concepts
The term natural science is used in a variety of ways, primarily: to denote the study of natural processes as opposed to human activitie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Hygiene: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Hygiene - Theories Of Natural Hygiene
It is characterized by several Theories as follows: The human body contains the power to heal itself (without medicine). Disease exists ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Disaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Disaster - Extreme Natural Disasters
Natural disaster - Ice age. An ice age is a geologic period, but could also be viewed in the light of a catastrophic natural disaster, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Disaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Disaster - Extreme Natural Disasters
Natural disaster - Ice age. Main article: Ice age An ice age is a geologic period, but could also be viewed in the light of a catastr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Disaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Disaster - Common Natural Phenomena That Can Result In Natural Disasters
Natural disaster - Blizzards and snowstorms. A snowstorm is a winter storm noin which the primary form of precipitation is snow. When s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Disaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Disaster - Common Natural Phenomena That Can Result In Natural Disasters
Natural disaster - Avalanche. Main article: Avalanche An avalanche is a geophysical hazard involving a slide of a large snow (or rock...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Natural: Encyclopedia Ii - The Natural - Influences
There are numerous parallels in the story to the Arthurian legends, as well as following a similar plot structure as The Odyssey, in orde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Gas: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Gas - Natural Gas Crisis
Many politicians and prominent figures in North America have spoken publicly about a possible natural gas crisis. This includes former Se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Logarithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Logarithm - Reason For Being Natural
Initially, it seems that in a world using base 10 for nearly all calculations, this base would be more "natural" than base e. The reason ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Transformation - Examples
Natural transformation - A worked example. Statements like "Every group is naturally isomorphic to its opposite group" abound in mode...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Building: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Building - Techniques
Several of the major types of currently-popular natural building will be outlined below, along with the various techniques and materials ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Naturals: Encyclopedia Ii - The Naturals - History
While working for USA Championship Wrestling, Douglas and Stevens were paired together by booker Bob Ryder. They were briefly known as Na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Health: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Health - History Of Natural Health
Although the term natural health did not become part of common usage until the late 20th century, many of its core beliefs developed in E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Transformation - Definition
If F and G are covariant functors between the categories C and D, then a natural transformation η from F to G associates to every object...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Natural: Encyclopedia Ii - The Natural - References In Popular Culture
In a third-season episode of The Simpsons, Homer joins the nuclear plant's softball team and leads them to the championship game using a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Natural: Encyclopedia Ii - The Natural - The Plot
The movie begins by showing Roy Hobbs as a grown man, looking too old for his years, silently awaiting a train that will take him to New ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Literature - Literature
As in film, naturalism is the general style, although the flexibility and amorphous quality of prose, as opposed to the concrete visual i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Literature - Literature
As in film, naturalism is the general style, although the flexibility and amorphous quality of prose, as opposed to the concrete visual i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Building: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Building - Materials
The materials common to many types of natural building are clay and sand. When mixed with water and, usually, straw or another fiber, the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalization: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalization - Naturalisation In The United Kingdom
The requirements for naturalisation as a British citizen depend on whether one is married to a British citizen or not. For those married ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naturalism Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Naturalism Literature - Theater
In theater, it developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theater that tries to create a perfect illusion of reali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Gas: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Gas - Sources
Natural gas is commercially produced from oil fields and natural gas fields. Gas produced from oil wells is called casinghead gas or asso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Gas: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Gas - Uses
Natural gas - Power generation. Natural gas is important as a major source for electricity generation through the use of gas turbines a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Band - History
The original band was formed in 1999 when future members Marc Terenzi and Patrick King met at a party. Marc Terenzi had a friend Ben Bled...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Selection: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Selection - Mechanisms Of Natural Selection
In Chapter 4 of The Origin of Species, Darwin wrote: It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Logarithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Logarithm - Definitions
Formally, ln(a) may be defined as the area under the graph (integral) of 1/x from 1 to a, that is, This defines a logarithm because it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Number - Properties
One can recursively define an addition on the natural numbers by setting a + 0 = a and a + S(b) = S(a + b) for all a, b. This turns the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Burial - Embalming
No state or province in North America requires routine embalming of bodies. Refrigeration or dry ice can substitute for embalming in most...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Number - Generalizations
Two generalizations of natural numbers arise from the two uses: ordinal numbers are used to describe the position of an element in a orde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Gas: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Gas - Safety
In any form, a minute amount of odorant such as methyl mercaptan, with a rotting-cabbagelike smell, is added to the otherwise colorless a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Selection: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Selection - Mechanisms Of Natural Selection
In Chapter 4 of The Origin of Species, Darwin wrote: It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature Journal: Encyclopedia Ii - Nature Journal - Publication
Nature was founded in 1869 by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, an astronomer and physicist best known as the co-discoverer of helium. Lockyer w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Number - Notation
Mathematicians use N or (an N in blackboard bold) to refer to the set of all natural numbers. This set is infinite but countable by defi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - State Of Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - State Of Nature - History
The concept of a state of nature was first posited by the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan. Hobbes described t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural History: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural History - Famous Natural History Museums
The term "natural history" forms the descriptive part of institution names, such as the Natural History Museum in London, the Humboldt Mu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Burial - Coffins
Most 'traditional' caskets are made from chipboard covered in a thin veneer. Handles are usually plastic, designed to look like brass. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Hygiene: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Hygiene - Natural Hygiene Vs Medical Science
Natural Hygiene claims to be contrary to medical science, medical schools and most medical doctors' beliefs, and that the two systems are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Transformation: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Transformation - Yoneda Lemma
Main article: Yoneda lemma If X is an object of the category C, then the assignment Y MorC(X, Y) defines a covariant functor FX : C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Nature - Influential Views Of Human Nature
As a general rule, any -ism important enough to be both defended and attacked, probably states or implies a distinctive view about human ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Monopoly: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Monopoly - Explanation
All industries have costs associated with entering them. Often, a large portion of these costs is required for investment. Larger industr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Monopoly: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Monopoly - Regulation
As with all monopolists, a monopolist who has gained his position through natural monopoly effects may engage in behavior that abuses of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Law: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Law - History
Greek philosophy was highly concerned with the difference between "nature" (physis, φúσις) on the one hand and "law" or "custom" (no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Hygiene: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Hygiene - Theories Pertaining To Medicines
It is part of the theories of Natural Hygiene that drugs and medicines are poisons to the human body and have no healing properties. Natu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Selection: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Selection - Classification
Natural selection - By effect on phenotypic composition of the population. Balancing selection - acts to maintain allelic diversity Di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Selection: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Selection - Overview
The basic concept of natural selection is that "nature" (the physical and biological environment) "selects" individuals that are endowed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Selection: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Selection - Overview
The basic concept of natural selection is that "nature" (the physical and biological environment) "selects" individuals that are endowed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Nature - Metaphysics And Ethics
There are a number of perspectives regarding the fundamental nature and substance of humans. These are by no means mutually exclusive, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Nature: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Nature - Psychology And Biology
A long standing question in philosophy and science is whether there exists an invariant human nature. For those who believe there is a hu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Fiber: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Fiber - Headline Text
Fiber (American English) or fibre (Commonwealth English) is a class of hair-like materials that are continuous filaments or are in discre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Horn: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Horn - Handhorn Technique
Before starting to learn handhorn technique get to know the harmonic series of the horn or the notes that can naturally be played without...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Hygiene: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Hygiene - The Role Of Fasting
Natural Hygiene practitioners often operate fasting retreat centers, because fasting is the preferred method of "treatment". They claim t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Building: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Building - Related Ideas And Strategies
Other concepts, methods and strategies often (or sometimes) associated with natural building include: building "underground," earth shelt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Health: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Health - Basic Core Tenets
The ideologies of natural health hold that all health, illness, and healing can be positively affected by prevention and lifestyle modifi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Logarithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Logarithm - Ln Is The Inverse Of The Natural Exponential Function
This function is the inverse function of the exponential function:      for all positive x and    &...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Gas: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Gas - Storage And Transport
The major difficulty in the use of natural gas is transportation and storage. Natural gas pipelines are economical, but are impractical a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Natural Logarithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Natural Logarithm - Numerical Value
To calculate the numerical value of the natural logarithm of a number, the Taylor series expansion can be rewritten as: To obtain a be...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural: Alternate Health Therapy Dictionary On Natural
Natural - A method of healing or a product from natural sources used in medical treatment. A difficult term to define because it can m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Self-nature: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Self-nature
Self-Nature One's own Original Nature, one's own Buddha Nature.    (See also: Self-Nature , Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naturalism: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Naturalism
naturalism All phenomena can be explained as of natural law and cause, with no supernatural association   (See also: Naturali...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dharma Nature: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Dharma Nature
Dharma Nature The intrinsic nature of all things. Used interchangeably with "emptiness," "reality." See also &quo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha Nature: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Buddha Nature
Buddha Nature The following terms refer to the same thing: Self-Nature, True Nature, Original Nature, Dharma Nature, True Mark, True ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Five Natures: Buddhist - Buddhism Dictionary On Five Natures
Five Natures The natures of (1)  Bodhisattvas, (2)  Sravakas and Pratyekabuddhas, (3)  ordinary good people, (4)&n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Higher-nature: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Higher-nature
higher-nature, lower nature: Expressions indicating man's refined, soulful qualities on the one hand, and his base, instinctive qualit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural Death: Insurance Terms Dictionary - Natural Death
Definition and meaning of Natural Death :   Natural Death: Death by means other than accident or homicide. (Source: InsWeb)...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural Death: Insurance Terms Dictionary - Natural Death
Definition and meaning of Natural Death :   Natural Death: Death by means other than accident or homicide. (Source: InsWeb)...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural Astrology: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Natural Astrology
NATURAL ASTROLOGY - study of earthquakes, tidal waves and other climatic and environmental influences. (NAD)   (See also: NATU...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Natural Magic: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Natural Magic
NATURAL MAGIC Sorceries and bewitchments intended to have an effect on Nature (e.g. "rain dance", "fertility rite"...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Buddha-nature: Zen And Buddhism Dictionary On Buddha-nature
Buddha-nature: The original nature of all people, which is harmonious and non-dualistic. This is always present, whether it is ever re...   » Read the article