law of nature
noun
an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
a system of morality conceived of as grounded in reason
See natural law (def. 2), nomological (def. 2)
See law 1 (def. 8)
Words nearby law of nature
Example sentences from the Web for law of nature
To the law-of-nature school, lawmaking was but an absolute development of absolute principles.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law |Roscoe Pound