Sentence examples for naturalist need from inspiring English sources

If we are simply to understand the link between observation and science, we are well advised to use any available information, including that provided by the very science whose link with observation we are seeking to understand.' A naturalist need not be afraid of circularity.

Mackie's argument seems to "load up" the concept of a moral property with a lot of baggage that the non-naturalist need not accept.

Second, how far do methodological naturalists need to allow that mathematics, morality and modality constitute exceptions to their position in the first place?

For if the practicality requirement on moral judgement is correct then the non-naturalist needs to provide some account of why an agent's recognition that one of the actions available to her has the non-natural property of rightness is such that her recognition of this fact rationally requires that she be motivated to perform the action.

When Lear invents the Pobble Who Has No Toes, he is mocking the naturalist's need to give a name to each new thing.

However, the non-naturalist will need a separate argument against those naturalists who hold that moral properties natural but irreducible.

It is not, of course, entomologists, or even weekend naturalists, who need convincing about the richness of the forest floor.

Any kind of moral naturalist realist needs to reject Moore's open question argument.

Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority.

The contrast between the different perspectives on properties brought to light in §4 gives us some reason to think that accounts in different fields (e.g., semantics and natural ontology) may call for entities with different identity conditions; for example, semantics requires very finely individuated properties, whereas naturalist ontology may need more coarsely individuated ones.

How far do methodological naturalists in fact need to allow that modality and mathematics and first-order morality do have a different status from the synthetic a posteriori character they attribute to philosophy in general?