Nature - The natural and the artificial

Nature (also called the material world, the material universe, the natural world, and the natural universe) is all matter and energy, especially in its essential form. Nature is the subject of scientific study, and the history of the concept is linked to the history of science. The English word derives from a Latin term, natura, which was in turn a translation of a Greek term, physis (φύσις). Natura is related to the Latin words relating to "birth", while physis relates to Greek words relating to "grow ...

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• Nature - Scientific divisions of Nature
• Nature - Nature outside Earth and its atmosphere
• Nature - Life
• Nature - Chemicals
• Nature - Matter and force
• Nature - Earth
• Nature - Philosophy of Nature
• Nature - Metaphysics
• Nature - The natural and the artificial
• Nature - Beauty in Nature
• Nature - Related concepts

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Nature - Metaphysics. In philosophy, the view that the material world of atoms, animals, gravity, stars, wind, microbes, etc., actually exist independently of our observations of them is termed realism; the opposing view is called idealism. Nature - The natural and the artificial. A distinction is often drawn between the "natural" and the "artificial" (="man-made"). Can such a distinction be justified? One approach is to exclude mind from the realm of the natural; another is to ...

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Nature - Nature outside Earth and its atmosphere. Events and phenomena outside Earth and its atmosphere are in the natural science of astronomy. Nature - Life. Life, the characteristics and behaviors of organisms, how species and individuals come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with their environment are all in the natural science of biology. The branch of biology that focuses on the relationships of organisms and their environment is the science of ...

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The term natural science is used in a variety of ways, primarily: to denote the study of natural processes as opposed to human activities, in contrast to the social sciences; and to denote those sciences which employ the scientific method, in contrast, for example, to mathematics or computer science. The term natural philosophy formerly named the scientific discipline now known as physics. Natural theology straddles the disciplines of theology and philosophy of religion. In education and related areas, the contrast "natural/a ...

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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 exemplifies a widely held view that nature is intrinsically beautiful. That the beauty of nature has been celebrated by so large a proportion of our art is further proof of the strength of this association between nature and beauty. Many scientists also share the conviction that nature is beautiful; the French mathematici ...

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Nature, Nature - Scientific divisions of Nature, Nature - Nature outside Earth and its atmosphere, Nature - Life, Nature - Chemicals, Nature - Matter and force, Nature - Earth, Nature - Philosophy of Nature, Nature - Metaphysics, Nature - The natural and the artificial, Nature - Beauty in Nature, Nature - Related concepts

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