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Having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.

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Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.

Alexander's interpretation proceeds throughout upon the naturalistic lines which have already become familiar to us.

The standpoint of the Apologie is that of pure naturalistic deism.

But they often show much practical experience, and exhibit the naturalistic method of the Hippocratic school.

Abstract I propose a counterexample to naturalistic representational theories of phenomenal character.

The late dates and various authors assigned to the books allow for purely naturalistic sources.

Naturalistic bronze cast statue of a fish-wife and little girl, the woman carrying a creel and a basket.

Accepting (or rejecting) a naturalistic theory requires only empirical observation and analysis -- evidence that can be accepted on its own merits.

You can be a theistic evolutionist or you can be a naturalistic evolutionist.

This is why Moore's own view of goodness as sui generis and irreducible is supposed to avoid the naturalistic fallacy.

So the so-called naturalistic fallacy is no fallacy at all.

Metaphysics as Metaphor Many philosophers think that physicalism is a naturalistic metaphysics as Metaphor Many philosophers think that physicalism is a naturalistic metaphysics.

The Lady of Shalott was one of his first successes, capturing a romantic, dreamy mood in a highly naturalistic setting.

The planting was a successful mixture of native and cottage style planting, all done in a very naturalistic style.

They are deliberately not naturalistic in every detail but formal and stylized according to certain strict conventions.

But on one level it works in a completely naturalistic sense.

What was interesting was that you really had to be incredibly naturalistic.

The facial features have been modeled so as to appear naturalistic.

Each of these movements questioned the Renaissance assumption that paintings should look naturalistic.

Under the guidance of Dutch garden designer, Henk Gerritsen, our gardeners are creating naturalistic plantings within the existing formal gardens.

The movie feels so unrelenting, so horrible, because of the organic, naturalistic way that Hooper films the action.

What is not in doubt is that Owen is a master wordsmith whose style ranges from high lyricism to naturalistic banality.

In " Some Consequences of (naturalistic) Belief," Balfour argues that the results of " naturalism " are unbearable.

His theory of the development of free-will (the objective spirit), which takes its start from Kant's conception of history, with its three stages of legal right, morality as determined by motive and instinctive goodness (Sittlichkeit), might almost as well be expressed in terms of a thoroughly naturalistic doctrine of human development.

Modern medicine, like modern ?xperiscience, is as boldly speculative as it has been in mental any age, and yet it is as observant as in any naturalistic period; its success lies in the addition to these qualities of the method of verification; the fault of previous times being not the activity of the speculative faculty, without which no science can be fertile, but the lack of methodical reference of all and sundry propositions, and parts of propositions, to the test of experiment.

The new artisan makers of the okimono struck out a line for themselves, one influenced more by the naturalistic and popular schools than by the classical art, and the quails of Kamejo, the tortoises of Seimin, the dragons of Tun and TOryu, and in recent years the falcons and the peacocks of Suzuki Chokichi, are the joy of the European collector.

These are all scenes in the ritual of the indigenous naturalistic religion which was spread, in slightly varying forms, all over Asia Minor, and consisted in the worship of the self-reproductive powers of nature, personified in the great mother-goddess (called by various names Cybele, Leto, Artemis, &c.) and the god her husband-and-son (Attis, Men, Sabazios, &c.), representing the two elements of the ultimate divine nature (see Great Mother Of The Gods).

As a company, they focus not only on superior botanically-based natural hair products, but also on total body wellness and naturalistic harmony to benefit both users of their products and society in general.

Some versions of the multiple intelligence test include "naturalistic" as a kind of intelligence for people who respond best to an outdoor environment, but that was not part of Dr. Gardner's original theory.

Environmentally conscious and outdoorsy, kids with high naturalistic intelligence are tuned into the natural world.

This early Chinese manner, which lasted in the parent country down to the end of the 13th century, was characterized by a viril,e grace of line, a grave dignity of composition, striking simplicity of technique, and a strong but incomplete naturalistic ideal.

But with these advances came the danger of falling into error from which common-sense dualism and naturalistic monism were free.

The drama is well done with good, naturalistic acting.

The conception of the world and of human life as controlled by natural law, a naturalistic cosmos, is alien not only to the prophetic and liturgical Hebrew literature but also to Hebrew thought in general.

The Buddhist sculptors, however, tended to grow more conventional and the metal-workers more naturalistic as the 18th century began to wane.

Its manufacture as a special branch of art work dates from the rise of the naturalistic school of painting and the great expansion of the popular school under the Katsugawa, but the okimono formed an occasional amusement of the older glyptic artists.

Many brilliant specimens of these mens work survive, their general features being that the motives are naturalistic, that the quality of the metal is exceptionally fine, that in addition to beautifully clear casting obtained by highly skilled use of the cera-perduta process, the chisel was employed to impart delicacy and finish to the design, and that modelling in high relief is most successfully introduced.

Up to that time all the leaders had been united in accepting the naturalistic formula, which was combined with an individualist and a radical tendency.

Thought became only the result of organic conditions - subjective and human; and the system of Hegel was no longer an idealization of religion, but a naturalistic theory with a prominent and peculiar logic.

This does not mean of course that the religion had no ethical traits - ethical motives are frequently found in the old Oriental religions - but they were bound up with certain naturalistic conceptions of the relation between deities and men, and herein lay their weakness.4 In the age of the Assyrian supremacy Palestine entered upon a series of changes, lasting for about three centuries (from about 740), which were of the greatest significance for its internal development.

His speculation turns, as has been said, upon the necessity of reconciling the existence and the might of evil with the existence of an all-embracing and allpowerful God, without falling into Manichaeanism on the one hand, or, on the other, into a naturalistic pantheism that denies the reality of the distinction between good and evil.

In the second stage, implements of true bronze (9 to io% tin) become common; painted pottery of buff clay with dull black geometrical patterns appears alongside the red-ware; and foreign imports occur, such as Egyptian blue-glazed beads (XIIth-XIIIth Dynasty, 2500-2000 B.C.),1 and cylindrical Asiatic seals (one of Sargon I., 2000 B.C.).2 In the third stage, Aegean colonists introduced the Mycenaean (late Minoan) culture and industries; with new types of weapons, wheel-made pottery, and a naturalistic art which rapidly becomes conventional; gold and ivory are abundant, and glass and enamels are known.

It accounts, too, for his polemic on the one hand against a Substantial Soul, a Buddhistic Absolute, an Infinite Spiritual Substance; on the other hand against the no less mysterious material or dynamic substratum by which naturalistic Monism explains the world.

But it is quite possible that his scientific studies had bred in him, as in many others at that time, a materialistic, or at least a naturalistic, turn of mind; indeed, we should expect as much in a man of Van den Ende's somewhat rebellious temperament.

Spinoza's philosophy is a thoroughgoing pantheism, which has both a naturalistic and a mystical side.

At this stage he was much in sympathy with the historicorationalistic criticism of the Old Testament, as carried on in Germany; giving his assent, for instance, to the naturalistic doctrine of Schiller's Die Sendung Moses.

Inasmuch as he finally followed in philosophy the mainly poetical or theosophic movement of Schelling, which satisfied neither the logical needs appealed to by Hegel nor the new demand for naturalistic induction, Coleridge, after arousing a great amount of philosophic interest in his own country in the second quarter of the century, has ceased to "make a school."

Naturalistic explanations of some of these are proposed, and a mythical theory is distinctly foreshadowed when Blount dwells on the inevitable tendency of men, especially long after the event, to discover miracles attendant on the birth and death of their heroes.

In the difficulties which he raises we may perhaps detect a leaning towards a naturalistic interpretation.

Dicaearchus agreed with his friend in this naturalistic rendering of the Aristotelian entelechy, and is recorded to have argued formally against the immortality of the soul.

The naturalistic tendency of the school reached its full expression in Strato of Lampsacus, the most independent, and probably the ablest, of the earlier Peripatetics.