单词 | naturalistic |
释义 | naturalisticadj. 1. a. Philosophy. In accordance with the doctrine of naturalism (naturalism n. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [adjective] naturalist1830 naturalistic1838 physico-philosophical1852 society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > kinds of religions > [adjective] > natural naturalist1830 naturalistic1838 naturalized1858 vegetation1878 pre-animistic1891 1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason 640 This branch of the investigation of nature into the naturalistic [Ger. in die naturalistische] and scientific. 1840 W. H. Mill Observ. Gospel vii. 130 The historical and naturalistic explanations of Paulus and his school. 1884 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 446 The naturalistic explanation of miracles was exploded finally by Strauss himself. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 379/2 [A challenge] which a spiritualistic philosophy need not shrink from accepting at the hands of naturalistic agnosticism. 1988 Nature 492/1 From a naturalistic viewpoint..the human activity of science is the way to the truth. b. Ethics. Of the nature of, characterized by, or based on naturalism (naturalism n. 1); relying wholly on the deductions of human reason; spec. in naturalistic fallacy: the definition of a quality by its attributes. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [adjective] > of other doctrines and their adherents physiophilosophical1858 naturalistic1860 primitivistic1898 1860 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. (1861) 9 The supporters of what may be termed the naturalistic theory of politics. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iii. 101 For the old humanistic worship..it substituted a naturalistic cult. 1894 J. Seth Study of Ethical Princ. iii. ii. 398 A naturalistic scheme of morality, the correlation of the ethical with the physical process. 1903 G. E. Moore Principia Ethica i. 10 Far too many philosophers have thought that when they named those..properties they were..defining good; that these properties..were..absolutely and entirely the same with goodness. This view I propose to call the ‘naturalistic fallacy’. 1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic vi. 157 We have already rejected the ‘naturalistic’ theories which are commonly supposed to provide the only alternative to ‘absolutism’ in ethics. 1965 Philosophy 40 308 The attack on the naturalistic fallacy..has been welcomed. 1988 T. L. S. Sprigge Rational Found. Ethics iii. 74 I have already suggested that Moore's doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy is one of the inspirations for attitudinism. 2. That aims at a faithful representation of nature; realistic. a. In visual art. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > naturalistic or representational depictive1821 naturalistic1849 naturalist1860 resemblant1872 representational1910 1849 Fraser's Mag. 39 295 They think it a sufficient condemnation of a picture to call it naturalistic. 1862 P. G. Hamerton Painter's Camp I. 8 Our modern school of naturalistic landscape painters. 1889 P. H. Emerson (title) Naturalistic photography for students of the art. 1933 Burlington Mag. Dec. 275/1 No painting in the whole range of the naturalistic school is so subtly and so truly observed as his Frosty Morning. 1969 K. Clark Civilisation xi. 288 This straightforward, naturalistic landscape-painting continued to be the popular style of painting for almost a hundred years. 1988 Mod. Painters Autumn 14/1 Before Moore, the popular view of sculpture was naturalistic, illustrative tableaux of Victorian detail. b. In literature, theatre, film, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory classic1743 classical1784 Alexandrian1803 romantic1812 realistic1829 realista1832 romanticist1831 symbolistic1864 symbolistical1864 neo-romantic1875 naturalistic1876 Alexandrine1877 neoclassical1877 veristic1884 impressionistic1886 impressionary1889 romanticistic1889 sensitivist1891 veritistic1894 Félibrian1908 symbolic1910 vorticist1914 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 postmodernist1926 surrealistic1930 ultraist1931 socialist-realist1935 lettrist1947 social realist1949 social realistic1949 formalist1955 1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. II. 426 The romantic and the naturalistic school adopted different modes of satisfying the yearning thus excited. 1889 Harper's Mag. Nov. 963/1 The perusal of a naturalistic book. 1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 635/2 The ‘Formalists’ held that the naturalistic theatre was not art, but a soulless attempt to photograph life. 1964 Listener 16 Apr. 629/1 The BBC..trying to find a way of avoiding naturalistic dialogue by the use of images with ‘voice over’ narration. 1989 Movie Winter 35/1 To what extent would you say that Z Cars was breaking with the naturalistic tradition of television drama? 3. Of or belonging to natural history; natural-historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [adjective] > natural history naturala1393 physiological1610 physiologic1669 natural-historical1804 natural-scientific1837 naturalistic1856 1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in Jrnls. (1998) vii. 266 Every day I gleaned some little bit of naturalistic experience, either through G's calling on me to look through the microscope or from hunting on the rocks. 1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 147 149/2 We wish no better guide on a naturalistic ramble. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes xiii. 214 Neither the available naturalistic accounts.., nor my own observations of wild baboons, provide data for more detailed consideration. 1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 439/2 His Evolution, the Modern Synthesis..brought together the fruits of a wide range of naturalistic, genetical, and mathematical studies. 4. Based on nature; relating to the natural order of things, as opposed to a logical order. ΚΠ 1867 L. H. Atwater Elem. Logic 53 In a Logical sense, quadrupeds, reptiles, birds, fishes, are species of the genus animal. In the Naturalistic sense, though they include species, they are not themselves species at all. 1947 H. Jacob Planned Auxiliary Lang. iii. xiv. 131 For the purposes of interlinguistic discussion they have been termed the naturalistic school and the autonomistic school. 1965 B. Pearce tr. E. Preobrazhensky New Econ. 149 Ninety per cent of all the mistakes..which occur when our young people study Marx result from a naturalistic conception of the law of value. 1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 278 Wells discusses variation in the speech produced by the children... Of..interest is the variation in terms of context and time of day, which should be considered by researchers collecting naturalistic data. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1838 |
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