Nature, in the broadest
sense, is equivalent to the
natural,
physical, or
material world or
universe. "Nature" refers to
the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in
scale from the subatomic to the cosmic. The concept of nature as a whole, the
physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it
began with certain core applications of the word
by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily
gained currency ever since. This usage continued during the advent of modern scientific
method in the last several centuries.
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