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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ex rerum natura en · ADV

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ex rērum nātūrā (“from the nature of things”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) From the nature of things; from the nature of the case; from nature; applied to arguments based on observation or experiment, as opposed to pure reason.
    • Let us hear the Arguments that follow, which are taken, as he saith, ex rerum naturâ. 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)

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in the nature of things