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non-naturalism

noun

  1. the meta-ethical doctrine that moral properties exist but are not reducible to "natural", empirical, or supernatural ones, and that moral judgments therefore state a special kind of fact Compare naturalistic fallacy See also descriptivism

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The non-naturalism of the staging helps the audience ease into the improbable plot, which tracks a French couple whose son goes from being a Celine Dion superfan to believing that he is the French Canadian pop diva herself.

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Second, she attacks the false dichotomy between new writing and new work: "New Writing does narrative, story, characters and naturalism, whereas New Work does non-linear, non-narrative, non-naturalism."

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