In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.

And the entirety of the natural world is party to the action.

Available evidence regarding the natural world, the course of history, and the varieties of human action were translated into imaginative designs or mythologies.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

Just the evocations of time and place, of passionate encounter between man and a natural world which today seems almost lost, would be enough.

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Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical ( or material ) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment.

These early human cultures later interpreted these spirits to be present in animals, the living plant world, and even in natural objects in a form of animism.

In many animistic world views found in hunter-gatherer cultures, the human being is often regarded as on a roughly equal footing with other animals, plants, and natural forces.

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.

Likewise there has been long debate on how perception of beauty in the natural world, especially perception of the human form as beautiful, is supposed to relate to perceiving beauty in art or artefacts.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

In its investigations of the spiritual world, anthroposophy aims to attain the precision and clarity attained by the natural sciences in their investigations of the physical world.

Steiner contrasted the anthroposophical approach with both conventional mysticism, which he considered lacking the clarity necessary for exact knowledge, and natural science, which he considered arbitrarily limited to investigating the outer world.

Details about the spiritual world, Steiner suggested, could on such a basis be discovered and reported, though no more infallibly than the results of natural science.

AI-complete problems are hypothesised to include computer vision, natural language understanding, and dealing with unexpected circumstances while solving any real world problem.

Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called abstract ; that which derives from, but does not imitate a recognizable subject is called nonobjective abstraction.

Like the natural world that he observes he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death.

But Sapir had since become influenced by a current of logical positivism, such as that of Bertrand Russel and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly through Ogden and Richards ' The Meaning of Meaning, from which he adopted the a view that natural language potentially obscures, rather than facilitates, the mind to perceive and describe the world as it really is.

It also is the fourth-largest producer of liquefied natural gas in the world.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

A simple illustration of such cause and effect is the case of experiencing the effects of what I cause: if I cause suffering, then as a natural consequence I will experience suffering ; if I cause happiness, then as a natural consequence I will experience happiness.

** If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A ( see Dedekind infinite ).

Thus, if every historian were to claim that there was a solar eclipse in the year 1600, then though we might at first naively regard that as in violation of natural laws, we'd come to accept it as a fact.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

In India some intellectual references of the movement can be found in the works of Vandana Shiva, an ecologist and feminist, who in her book Biopiracy documents the way that the natural capital of indigenous peoples and ecoregions is converted into forms of intellectual capital, which are then recognized as exclusive commercial property without sharing the private utility thus derived.

Brain tissue in its natural state is too soft to work with, but it can be hardened by immersion in alcohol or other fixatives, and then sliced apart for examination of the interior.

Division of whole numbers can be thought of as a function ; if Z is the set of integers, N < sup >+</ sup > is the set of natural numbers ( except for zero ), and Q is the set of rational numbers, then division is a binary function from Z and N < sup >+</ sup > to Q.

If the partnership's preceding call is a natural bid in notrump, then 4NT is also natural.

* Indicative conditional, a conditional in the form of " If A then B " in natural languages

Almost all other elements found in nature, including some further hydrogen and helium created since then, were made by various natural or ( at times ) artificial methods of nucleosynthesis.

Functors often describe " natural constructions " and natural transformations then describe " natural homomorphisms " between two such constructions.

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 X in C a morphism in D such that for every morphism in C, we have ; this means that the following diagram is commutative:

Traditionally, within the toad's natural range in South America, the Embera-Wounaan would " milk " the toads for their toxin, which was then employed as an arrow poison.

Specifically, if p is the natural length of a section of spring, then the length of the spring with tension T applied has length

Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.

This view naturally led to what was then usually called necessitarianism ( the modern term is determinism ): the view that everything in the universe – including human behavior – is completely causally determined by antecedent circumstances and natural law.

This class is defined for a quantum computer and its natural corresponding class for an ordinary computer ( or a Turing machine plus a source of randomness ) is BPP.

In 1994 / 95 Andrew Hugill composed Island Symphony, an electro-acoustic piece utilising sampled sounds sourced over the net plus recorded natural sounds from the island itself.

In China, the Traditional Chinese Medicine approach is used in formulating natural herbal teas and they are very popular in enhancing health and addressing core issues within the body ; e. g. formulated recipes like hawthorn plus oolong / pu-er can address the high fat level in body's bloodstream.

* Reviews of Books About Natural Science This site contains over 50 previously published reviews of books about natural science, plus selected essays on timely topics in natural science.

Broad Creek has three primary camps, two secondary camps, plus a large natural area including the largest hemlock forest east of the mountains in Maryland.

A wide variety of wildlife including white tail deer, wild turkey, ducks, geese, fox plus many more, share the natural setting.

In the final chapter of his Evolution the modern synthesis he defines evolutionary progress as " a raising of the upper level of biological efficiency, this being defined as increased control over and independence of the environment ," Evolution in action discusses evolutionary progress at length: " Natural selection plus time produces biological improvement ... ' Improvement ' is not yet a recognised technical term in biology ... however, living things are improved during evolution ... Darwin was not afraid to use the word for the results of natural selection in general ...

Kansai's unique position in Japanese history, plus the lack of damage from wars or natural disasters has resulted in Kansai region having more UNESCO World Heritage Listings than any other region of Japan.

The United Nations ( UNSCEAR ) estimated in 2008 that average annual human radiation exposure includes 0. 01 mSv ( milli-Sievert ) from the legacy of past atmospheric nuclear testing plus the Chernobyl disaster and the nuclear fuel cycle, along with 2. 0 mSv from natural radioisotopes and 0. 4 mSv from cosmic rays ; all exposures vary by location.

* The decision to cloak or not is often based upon the HTTP referrer, the user agent or the visitor's IP ; but more advanced techniques can be also based upon the client's behaviour analysis after a few page requests: the raw quantity, the sorting of, and latency between subsequent HTTP requests sent to a website's pages, plus the presence of a check for robots. txt file, are some of the parameters in which search engines spiders differ heavily from a natural user behaviour.

The Santa Anita track is set against the backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains. Santa Anita has a one-mile ( 1, 609 m ) natural dirt main track which rings a turf course measuring 9 / 10 of a mile, or 7 furlongs plus 132 feet ( 1, 448 m ).

The Maldives are formed by a number of natural atolls plus atolls in the form of a few islands and isolated reefs today which form a pattern stretching from 7 degrees 10 ' North to 0 degrees 45 ' South.

The College of Arts and Sciences includes undergraduate departments in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, plus a number of interdisciplinary programs.

Both were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years ; Loeb was murdered in prison in 1936, while Leopold was paroled in 1958 after serving 33 years, and died in 1971 of natural causes.

The self-consistent development of the hyperreals turned out to be possible if every true first-order logic statement that uses basic arithmetic ( the natural numbers, plus, times, comparison ) and quantifies only over the real numbers was assumed to be true in a reinterpreted form if we presume that it quantifies over hyperreal numbers.

In eastern North America, there are two well-known species, named after their fruit color, red chokeberry and black chokeberry, plus a purple chokeberry whose origin is a natural hybrid of the two.

In a simple majority rule social arbitration scheme, one might expect that a natural tax rate T can be determined: the median income ( plus 1 ).

His natural talent plus his newly acquired inspiration allowed Douglas to be considered the " Father of African American arts.

Eastburn Station gave up the plus that forms the natural backdrop as a reserve.

South Island generation accounted for 40. 9 percent of the nation's electricity in 2011, nearly all ( 97 percent ) from hydroelectricity, while the North Island generated the remaining 59. 1 percent from a mixture of mainly hydroelectric, natural gas and geothermal generation, plus smaller amount of coal and wind generation.

These include regular local bus and train services ( but only a few long distance services ), an indoor heated pool, gymnasium, baseball field, several small local parks, mountain camping sites, plus a new natural history museum, library, and performance hall seating 500 people.

Spinning a natural triple automatically awarded the prize package, along with either $ 1, 000 or the total in the pot plus the value of the triple, whichever was greater.

Within about two to four seconds, aircraft velocity by the action of the catapult plus apparent wind speed ( ship's speed plus or minus " natural " wind ) will be sufficient to allow an aircraft to fly away, even after losing one engine.