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non-ˈnaturalist, a. and n.
[non- 4.]
A. Used attrib. or adj.
a. Not versed in, or disposed to the study of, Natural History.
1858Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 138 Being quizzed by my non-naturalist relations. 1873Taylor Half-hours in Green Lanes 2 The most non-naturalist of pedestrians.
b. Philos. Of or pertaining to non-naturalism.
1966Amer. Philos. Q. III. 299/2 Such a derivation, if valid, might be..a counter-example to the non-naturalist thesis.
B. n. [non- 2.] Philos. An adherent of non-naturalism.
1939Mind XLVIII. 5 It is not indeed the only sense of good which the non-naturalist will hold incapable of reduction to naturalistic terms. 1966Amer. Philos. Q. III. 305/2 Both non-naturalists and their critics seem to be seriously mistaken.
Hence non-naturaˈlistic a.; non-naturaˈlistically adv.
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. vi. 143 Brahmans, Buddhists, Christians, Mohammedans, twice-born people whose religion is non-naturalistic. 1939W. D. Ross Foundations of Ethics i. 6 If you define ‘good’ as meaning ‘such that it ought to be desired’, you are putting forward a non-naturalistic definition. Consequence theories also may be either naturalistic or non-naturalistic. 1940Mind XLIX. 228 In the Introduction Ross divides attempted definitions of ethical terms into ‘attitudes-theories’ and ‘consequence-theories’, and then sub-divides each of these into a naturalistic and a non-naturalistic sub-class. 1952Mind LXI. 544 Any moral system is taken to be grounded non-naturalistically which is deduced from principles held to be certain and inviolable. |