Naturalism may refer to:
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Realism (arts), naturalism in the arts
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Naturalism (literature)
Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary. Lit ...
, a literary movement beginning in the late 19th century
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Naturalism (theatre)
Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies. Interes ...
, a movement in European drama and theatre
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Naturalism (philosophy)
In philosophy, naturalism is the idea or belief that only Physical law, natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe.
According to philosopher Steven Lockwood, naturalism can be separated into an ontological ...
, the idea that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe
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Naturalism (horse) (1988–2018), a racehorse
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Naturalness (disambiguation)
Naturalness may refer to:
* Naturalness (physics)
* Naturalness (philosophy)
* ''Naturalness'' (Dal Shabet EP), 2016
* Ziran
Ziran or tzu-jan is a key concept in Daoism that literally means "of its own; by itself" and thus "naturally; natur ...
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Natural history, a domain of inquiry involving organisms
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Naturalist, a person who studies natural history
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Naturalistic fallacy
In philosophical ethics, the naturalistic fallacy is the claim that any reductive explanation of good, in terms of natural properties such as ''pleasant'' or ''desirable'', is false. The term was introduced by British philosopher G. E. Moore in hi ...
, the mistake of explaining something as being good reductively, in terms of natural properties
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Naturism
Naturism is a lifestyle of practising non-sexual social nudity in private and in public; the word also refers to the cultural movement which advocates and defends that lifestyle. Both may alternatively be called nudism. Though the two terms a ...
, a lifestyle of practising non-sexual social nudity
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Naturalistic observation
Naturalistic observation, sometimes referred to as fieldwork, is a research methodology in numerous fields of science including ethology, anthropology, linguistics, the social sciences, and psychology, in which data are collected as they occur in ...
, a research methodology
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Critical naturalism
Critical or Critically may refer to:
*Critical, or critical but stable, medical states
**Critical, or intensive care medicine
* Critical juncture, a discontinuous change studied in the social sciences.
*Critical Software, a company specializing in ...
, an idea of Roy Bhaskar
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Ethical naturalism
Ethical naturalism (also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that:
# Ethical sentences express propositions.
# Some such propositions are true.
# Those propositions are made true ...
, or moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism
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Humanistic naturalism
Humanistic naturalism is the branch of philosophical naturalism wherein human beings are best able to control and understand the world through use of the scientific method, combined with the social and ethical values of humanism. Concepts of spi ...
, a branch of philosophical naturalism
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Liberal naturalism
Liberal naturalism is a heterodox form of philosophical naturalism that lies in the conceptual space between scientific (or reductive) naturalism and supernaturalism. It allows that one can respect the explanations and results of the successful s ...
, a heterodox form of philosophical naturalism
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Metaphysical naturalism
Metaphysical naturalism (also called ontological naturalism, philosophical naturalism and antisupernaturalism) is a philosophical worldview which holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by ...
, a philosophical basis for science
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Poetic naturalism
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...
, an approach of Sean M. Carroll
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Political naturalism Political naturalism is a political ideology and legal system which believes that there is a natural law, just and obvious to all, that crosses ideologies, faiths and personal thinking, that naturally guaranties justice. It is inspired by sociologi ...
, a belief that there is a natural law
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Religious naturalism
Religious naturalism combines a naturalist worldview with ideals, perceptions, traditions, and values that have been traditionally associated with many religions or religious institutions. "Religious naturalism is a perspective that finds religi ...
, combines a naturalist worldview with ideals associated with many religions
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Sociological naturalism, the view that the natural world and the social world are roughly identical
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Spiritual naturalism
Spiritual naturalism, or naturalistic spirituality combines a naturalist approach to spiritual ways of looking at the world. Spiritual naturalism may have first been proposed by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (, ; 5 Februa ...
, combines a naturalist approach to spiritual ways of looking at the world
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