Naturalism
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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
- Methodological naturalism is the methodological assumption that that observable events in nature are explained only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural,
- 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
- Naturalism (horse), a race horse trained by Lee Freedman
- 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
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Naturalism should not be confused with naturism, which is related to nudism
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