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- Latin · learned borrowing fromex rērum nātūrā“from the nature of things”
- English todayex rerum natura
Learned borrowing from Latin ex rērum nātūrā (“from the nature of things”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ex rerum natura
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Latin ex rērum nātūrā