What is "naturalistic"

Usage examples of "naturalistic".

In the identification of the divine consciousness, that is, the power of God, with the force to which the world is due the naturalistic basis of the apologetic speculations is most clearly shown.

They are for a systematic and scientific neurology, reduced to fixed tests and tasks, not for an open, naturalistic neurology.

DOOM PATROL is less a surreal fantasy than it is a naturalistic rendering of our supersaturated cultural space.

Of the later pottery of Knossos, which substituted naturalistic motives, executed in monochrome, for the conventional polychrome designs of the Kamares period, many specimens were also found during the excavations of this season.

Naturalistic inquiry aims at empirical explanation, conceived of as the development of theories that identify lawful or lawlike regularities and causal connections between variables.

It was xenophobic pride along with guilt, I believe, that kept me from accepting this until now: I too did not want to believe in Venusians but instead was seeking some naturalistic outlet, some credible and limited explanation.

As we will see in the next chapter, with the collapse of virtually any form of Idealism, the Western world nestled comfortably into the Descended domain of the naturalistic flatland, with its altogether low center of ontological gravity, like a beanbag chair already settled.

He characteristically juxtaposes the supernatural or the magical with the naturalistic and gritty reality of contemporary life.

These approaches therefore attempt to demonstrate, in objectivistic and naturalistic terms (in it-terms of interrelated processes), that we are primarily strands or parts in the wonderful web of lifeand my point is that, even if that were propositionally true, that paradigm still reduces the interior dimensions of truthfulness and mutual understanding to merely exterior functional fit, and thus these approaches do precisely nothing to further the understanding of how we can mutually come to agree on the courses of action necessary for biospheric sanity in the first place.