Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Imitating or producing the effect or appearance of nature.
- adj. Of or in accordance with the doctrines of naturalism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with nature; natural; not formal, conventional, or conventionalized; hence, simulating or resembling nature: as, a naturalistic effect of light on the stage.
- Realistic.
- Of, pertaining to, or based on naturalism in its philosophical or theological sense.
- In photography, said of a photograph in which the chief object is slightly out of focus.
Wiktionary
- adj. having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic
- adj. of, or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
- adj. Closely resembling nature; realistic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. representing what is real; not abstract or ideal
Examples
“Somewhat surprisingly, Moore in effect also argues that most forms of non-naturalism are also guilty of what he calls the naturalistic fallacy.”
“Many thinkers of the present day pride themselves upon the growth of what they call the naturalistic spirit.”
“If you want to see the latest in naturalistic manufacturing, though, check out the Eagle Nebula where the factories are putting out the latest model stars.”
“Insect photos in naturalistic macro-focus - Boing Boing”
“The point, however, is that there is a some fact of the matter about whether it is true, but that is not a fact that can be explained in naturalistic terms.”
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
“However, the truth maker of Socrates 'belief is different form the truth maker of Nocrates' belief, and this is nothing that can be accounted for in naturalistic terms.”
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings
“Any appeal to divine intervention to bridge what seem to be otherwise unbridgeable gaps in naturalistic explanations is viewed with great suspicion.”
“The American controversy over science teaching stems from the interaction of a constitutional peculiarity, namely, the First Amendment, with the seeming absence of metaphysical or theological content in naturalistic theories of evolution.”
“In this way he imparts poetic substance - in naturalistic poetry far from symbolism - to a fact that has always been denied: the superiority of the American Indian as farmer, as craftsman and worker.”
“Regarding the interface continuum, you are probably right to place me somewhere along the middle of the cline – everything I’ve written has argued for some kind of CR or noticing or focus on form WITHIN the context of communicative language use – even if only (following Schmidt) it acts to ‘prime’ the learner to notice occurences in naturalistic input, or (following Swain) it encourages active hypothesis testing.”
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