c.a.u.s.e. standard and taxonomy
reality is governed by causality-creator over creation.
mechanics defeats semantics-counting defeats decree-real defeats fiat
or we abandon reason itself.
[nature makes laws | man makes rules]
[laws of nature] irreducible non-contradictory immutable constants of our persistent, mutually objective, replenishing, productive, responsive, cause-and-effect-governed, coherent, harmonious reality (eg., laws of physics, chemistry, biology: life reproducing in-kind and in abundance according to its tending, etc.,) exist and operate independently of human cognition, observation, or belief;
[natural-system] wholes, parts, portions, and their relationships interacting within a mutual domain; discovered and described by one or some-belonging to all; each individual able to make deliberate use of each resource to the extent of one's awareness and the depth of one's understanding, each individual able to update their own fidelity by using telemetry-triangulations made by one's multiple inborn, innate, organic senses and faculties,
which are enhanced and leveraged by invention and technology:
[rules of man] cognized abstractions: definitions, instructions, logics, hierarchies, organizations, institutions, models, classifications, frameworks, systems, etc.; the degree to which man's rules, rulings, and systems measure and describe nature's laws is the degree to which his rules, rulings, and systems are lawful: