NATURALISM

'Naturalism' may refer to:

★ Naturalism (philosophy), any of several philosophical stances wherein all phenomena or hypotheses commonly labeled as supernatural, are either false, unknowable, or not inherently different from natural phenomena or hypotheses

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★ Methodological naturalism is the methodological assumption that observable events in nature are explained only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural,

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★ Metaphysical naturalism, a view whereby the world is amenable to a unified study that includes the natural sciences and in this sense the world is a unity.

★ Ethical naturalism, the theory that ethical terms can be defined in non-ethical terms

★ Humanistic naturalism, an outlook that places the emphasis upon a naturalism based upon scientific reasoning

★ Natural history, a broad area of the natural sciences concerned with living things

★ Sociological naturalism, the view that the natural world and the social world are roughly identical and governed by similar principles

★ Naturalism (art), an artistic style

★ Naturalism (literature), a literary, cinematic, or theatrical style

★ Naturalistic observation, an empirical method of study by which the researcher introduces no outside stimulus, instead witnessing behavior as it naturally occurs in the environment
'Naturalism' should not be confused with naturism, which is related to nudism

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★ Naturalist (disambiguation)