E-002 SEP Naturalism (Definition)

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A reference definition/characterization for Naturalism.

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A central thought in ontological naturalism is that all spatiotemporal entities must be identical to or metaphysically constituted by physical [ 3 ] entities. Many ontological naturalists thus adopt a physicalist attitude to mental, biological, social and other such “special” subject matters. They hold that there is nothing more to the mental, biological and social realms than arrangements of physical entities.

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