understanding of nature

collocation in English

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understanding
adjective
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/ˌʌn.dəˈstæn.dɪŋ/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈstæn.dɪŋ/
An understanding person who has the ability to know how other people are feeling, and can forgive them if they do ...
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nature
noun
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/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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The dissociation ofunderstandingofnatureand attunement to the world has been very good for the former.
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With these formative attempts to provide a rational basis for theunderstandingofnature, we can trace differences in emergent pluralism from its creationist counterparts.
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In tabular form, processes such as oxygenation spread out to organize the investigativeunderstandingofnaturethrough a set of predetermined research programs.
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Given that theism was developed in the context of a very differentunderstandingofnature, the project of reconstructing a viable and insightful theism is extremely problematic.
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In the first decades of the eighteenth century, chemistry was publicly defined as a set of laboratory techniques that carried no attending claim to a systematicunderstandingofnature.
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Body culture studies have also influenced theunderstandingofnature.
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This broadunderstandingofnatureenables scientists to delineate specific forces which, together, comprise natural selection.
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Scientists perform research toward a more comprehensiveunderstandingofnature, including physical, mathematical and social realms.
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The narrator comes to anunderstandingofnaturewhile isolated with his thoughts.
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Tomkinson admits witches have an excellentunderstandingofnatureand that is how they dupe those who do not.
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Second, phenomenology believes that analyzing the daily human behavior will provide one with a comprehensiveunderstandingofnature.
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Rationalism and empiricism based science was breaking its dependence on religion, seeking deeperunderstandingofnatureand society.
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Second, phenomenology believes that analyzing daily human behavior can provide one with a greaterunderstandingofnature.
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It includes anunderstandingofnatureand everything it is made up of, even the parts that are not pleasing.
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In addition, it is also argued that there is a direct and strong relationship between environmental problems and ourunderstandingofnature.
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They celebrated the ideas which over the last 150 years have revolutionised ourunderstandingofnatureand our place within it.
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This was part of his teleologicalunderstandingofnaturein which all things have an intended role to play in a divine cosmic order.
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I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectualunderstandingofnatureand of our own being.
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Exhibits were built trying to recreate a natural habitat for each species, which gives visitors a betterunderstandingofnatureand provides the animal enrichment.
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Because his views of religion were deeply tied to hisunderstandingofnature, the text's theism rested on the argument from design.
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The populist was scientific realism, usually belief that science has progressively unveiled a truer view and built a betterunderstandingofnature.
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Of course a plausible explanation for there being a gap in ourunderstandingofnatureis that there is a genuine gap in nature.
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Because his views of religion were deeply tied to hisunderstandingofnature, the text's theism rests on the argument from design.
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He claimed that a deepunderstandingofnatureis essential for living in harmony with the law of nature, while balancing material well-being with spiritual progress.
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