fews example for this word are:
1, people want to be beautiful naturally.
2, john die naturally.
3, it happened naturally.
the first fews "explanation" from dictionary.com
| 1. | existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge. |
| 2. | based on the state of things in nature; constituted by nature: Growth is a natural process. |
| 3. | of or pertaining to nature or the universe: natural beauty. |
| 4. | of, pertaining to, or occupied with the study of natural science: conducting natural experiments. |
| 5. | in a state of nature; uncultivated, as land. |
| 6. | growing spontaneously, without being planted or tended by human hand, as vegetation. |
| 7. | having undergone little or no processing and containing no chemical additives: natural food; natural ingredients. Compare organic (def. 11). |
| 8. | having a real or physical existence, as opposed to one that is spiritual, intellectual, fictitious, etc. |
| 9. | of, pertaining to, or proper to the nature or essential constitution: natural ability. |
| 10. | proper to the circumstances of the case: a natural result of his greed. |
when people use the word, it sounds like everything myth is automatically become clear and understandable. and it is because of the un-doubtful of the word, it was used to convince people and used in arguments.
some people may have a better understanding of this word: it is reference to those that is not created by human, sounds like everything was done by human is un-natural, or artificial. (un-natural is a word mostly means harm to nature, or abnormal ) however, why human action is un-natural? are we part of the nature? or we are already become god and goddess, that independent of the natural? a nest made by a bird is completely natural, but a house built by human is not. a society formed by orangutans is natural, but human society is not. is that anything made us so supreme that we are isolated from the word? our body, our brain volume, our society are all the evolution product by the natural selection. even the pollutions that produced from us are completely natural and it is a consequences of the history, or in more scientific saying, everything happen so far is produced, (related, connected) by the past light cone history. so, what is natural??? may be the word "natural" is more like to be " can be found in non-human disturbance" , no this is not so good at all, since we also use "natural" to describe human being. anyway, artificial is part of natural.
since everything we experienced is happened in this universe, this earth, this nature. so, nature is the perform of everything can be happened. everything is completely natural. imagine in a video game, can you move your character in an "un-game-ic" way? no, all you can do is already designed by the game, so, all experiences are completely "game-ic". even though you are the game designer, when every newly added tricks in the game, that trick should be classify as "in-game" or "game-ic".
i am not going to suggesting something like god, a supreme stuff that outside and design/control the world. just imagine you are a character in a game, can you distinguish what is the new patch from the game developers? all you can see is the game's law is different from the past, and you can simply think you discovered a new way, a new law of the game! just like we are living in this world, if there is a kind of god, who sometimes send a new patch to this world, and we just discover and consider it is a new science. (may be the god is so busy on writing patch for my thesis, until it releases a new patch, my thesis cannot be complete. :P) or, we assume everything was set at the very beginning, we are just dig out the truth deeper and deeper. (just like chess, the rule is already set, but the game play can be discovered/innovated.) by the way, since these 2 approaches can not be proved or disproof, so, discussion of this is meaningless and should be stopped.
as long as this world can be understand, everything in this world must be natural. so, an un-natural stuff may be not "nature-friendly" or cannot be explained or understand. this related to how we experience the world and skipped in here.
all in all, "natural" is a very un-natural word, :P .......... or even bulllock.
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