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自然主義,本能行動

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Naturalism \Nat"u*ral*ism\, n. [Cf. F. naturalisme.]
   1. A state of nature; conformity to nature.

   2. (Metaph.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural
      agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the
      Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of
      philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind
      force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed
      laws, excluding origination or direction by one
      intelligent will.

Naturalism \Nat"u*ral*ism\, n.
   1. The theory that art or literature should conform to
      nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or
      expression of art or literature executed according to this
      theory.

   2. Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or
      represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers,
      notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a
      literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress
      on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific
      and experimental nature of their observation of life.

資料來源 : WordNet®

naturalism
     n 1: (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood
          in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or
          supernatural explanations
     2: an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and
        writers strove for detailed realistic and factual
        description [syn: {realism}]