naturalistic account

collocation in English

meaningsofnaturalisticandaccount

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naturalistic
adjective
uk
/ˌnætʃ.ər.əlˈɪs.tɪk/
us
/ˌnætʃ.ɚ.rəˈlɪs.t̬ɪk/
Naturalistic art, literature, acting, etc. shows things as they ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/
us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofnaturalisticandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The third develops a morenaturalisticaccountof the many universes needed for resurrection.
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The fourth develops a morenaturalisticaccountof resurrection counterparts.
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It provides an alternative, whollynaturalisticaccountof the origin of some of the characteristically superstitious beliefs that have often been attributed to revelation.
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It will not do to give any reductive ornaturalisticaccountof ethics.
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Yet, they are important steps in a direction leading towards anaturalisticaccountof justice and of the social contract.
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Moreover, as with regularity over time, so here we may wonder whether there is a goodnaturalisticaccountof these facts.
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Abilities of both types can be grounded in anaturalisticaccountof the usefulness of cognitive structures in adaptive behaviour.
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They have been seen by many physicalists as a reactionary woolly-minded doctrine that would impede a fullynaturalisticaccountof the mental.
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Let us assume that a ' full-information 'naturalisticaccountof good is correct.
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In his work, he seeks to provide anaturalisticaccountof intentionality, characterizing representation in terms of causal and modal notions.
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The argument hinges on the idea that a satisfactorynaturalisticaccountof thought processes in terms of brain processes can be given for mathematical reasoning along with everything else.
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