NATURALISTIC


Meaning of NATURALISTIC in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

fallacy

Moore says that those who try to identify good with some complex property are committing what he calls the naturalistic fallacy .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He turned instead to naturalistic analogies drawn especially from chemistry.

Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium, and never an understated one.

Quite the opposite: Why try to copy naturalistic virtues that the camera can capture more tellingly?

Straddling naturalistic setting and ritual drama, Reilly is the only character who sings.

The participant observer in such a naturalistic framework really only observes.

They are therefore designed to indicate to what extent and in what ways the child uses language in naturalistic settings.

Thus they escape the naturalistic science curriculum of the vast majority of public institutions at the primary, secondary and collegiate levels.

Yet it is not the reality of a naturalistic drama, such as we would find in, say, Ibsen or Chekhov.

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