contradictory nature

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• Nature and Attributes of God —     The Nature and Attributes of God     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Nature and Attributes of God     I. As Known Through Natural Reason     A. Infinity of God     B. Unity or Unicity of God     C. Simplicity of God     D. Divine Personality… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Nature (philosophy) — Nature is a concept with two major sets of inter related meanings, referring on the one hand to the things which are natural, or subject to the normal working of laws of nature , or on the other hand to the essential properties and causes of… …   Wikipedia

• contradictory — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, seem, sound ADVERB ▪ completely ▪ The evidence is completely contradictory. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Nature fakers controversy — Illustration from William J. Long s School of the Woods (1902), showing an otter teaching her young to swim The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment… …   Wikipedia

• nature — noun 1 the physical world; plants, animals, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ Mother ▪ Mother Nature s way of dealing with overpopulation VERB + NATURE ▪ commune with ▪ He believed in spending half an hour each day to relax and commune with …   Collocations dictionary

• nature + animals —    by Laurence Simmons   Baudrillard s views on nature (and by consequence the animals that inhabit it) are shaped by his account of the precession of simulacra, the practice of substituting the signs of the real for the real (SS, 2).… …   The Baudrillard dictionary

• contradictory — /kɒntrəˈdɪktəri / (say kontruh diktuhree) adjective 1. of the nature of a contradiction. 2. containing internal contradictions. 3. (of a person) given to contradiction; argumentative. –noun (plural contradictories) 4. Logic a proposition so… …  

• MAN, THE NATURE OF — IN THE BIBLE Names of Man The idea of man is expressed in the Bible by a number of words that reflect various aspects of his nature. The following are the most important. ʾADAM: collective, men, human beings, also (in prose, with the article)… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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• The nature of God in Western theology — The nature of God in monotheistic religions is a broad topic in Western philosophy of religion and theology, with a very old and distinguished history; it was one of the central topics in medieval philosophy.The Abrahamic faiths, Judaism,… …   Wikipedia