lawlike
Adjective
Meaning
lawlike (comparative more lawlike, superlative most lawlike)
Having characteristics of a law.
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Examples
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.
Baruch Spinoza seeAlso In his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Spinoza claims citation that miracles are merely lawlike events whose causes we are ignorant of.
This understanding of causation as 'impersonal lawlike causal ordering' is important because it shows how the processes that give rise to suffering work, and also how they can be reversed.