It describes the effort to derive laws that explain objective phenomena in general.

In places, Aristotle goes too far in deriving 'laws of the universe' from simple observation and over-stretched reason.

Definitions vs. theorems: There is a very important difference between defining equations and general or derived results, theorems or laws.

Solutions for such files are reached while deriving scaling laws and with numerical simulations.

They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature.

From observations of particulars as such it would be impossible, according to Spinoza, to derive laws or necessary connections.

Congress's oversight authority derives from its "implied" powers in the Constitution, public laws, and House and Senate rules.

On the one hand, Akhbaris (nowadays a small minority) reject the use of reasoning in deriving religious laws and verdicts.

From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, they tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle.

The natural sciences seek to derive general laws through reproducible and verifiable experiments.