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    There is no natural law that distinguishes some events in nature as more natural than others.

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    • 1.All events occur within 'God or Nature.'
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    • 2.All events within 'God or Nature' are equally natural.
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    • 1.Aristotelian natural teleology distinguishes events by whether they fulfill or frustrate a thing's essential nature (telos), grounding a real natural/unnatural distinction.
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    • 2.If teleological natures are real features of entities (as Aquinas and neo-Aristotelians like Foot argue), then events contrary to those natures are objectively less natural.
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    • 1.Statistical normality within biological kinds (e.g., species-typical functioning) provides a naturalistic criterion distinguishing normal from pathological events, per Boorse's biostatistical theory.
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    • 2.A distinction grounded in objective species-typical function is a natural law distinction, not an arbitrary or theological one, falsifying the claim that no such law exists.
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    The next two centuries in European philosophy can be described in terms of two lines of development, rationalism and empiricism, both of which led, in different ways, to the possibility of a greater detachment of ethics from theology. The history of rationalism from René Descartes (1596–1650) to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is a history of re-establishing human knowledge on the foundation of rational principles that could not be doubted, after modern science started to shake the traditi
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