Naturalism

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Claim

There is nothing mystical or supernatural in the world. All that we know, see and feel are natural phenomenon.

Explanation

Even morality is a matter of chemical reactions and natural properties, there is no soul or higher power that determines what's right and wrong. It's either "in our blood" or non at all. Naturalism goes hand in hand with Knowledge comes from empirical testing not innate reason and rejects Objects imitate a perfect version of themselves

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Dualism pushes back on this — if the mind is separate from the body, then not everything reduces to natural, physical processes The mind and body are separate. Even causality is shaky ground for strict naturalism, since it's not something you can point to like a rock or a molecule, more a relationship we infer between things Correlation is not causation.

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