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Natural
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Natural might refer to:
- Appeal to nature — a logical fallacy
- Philosophical naturalism — the doctrine that the natural world is all there is, in opposition to supernaturalism
- Methodological naturalism — the required assumption of philosophical naturalism when working with the scientific method
- NaturalNews — a crank alternative medicine website
- Natural selection — a primary mechanism behind evolution
- Natural philosophy — a phrase that was used to describe the work of early scientists, such as Isaac Newton
- Natural childbirth — childbirth that is not medically assisted
- Natural gas
- Natural horsemanship
- Natural law — the concept that incontrovertible laws of nature exist and should inform any of the laws written by governments and societies
- Natural Law Party — a political party created by the Transcendental Meditation movement
- Naturalistic fallacy — inferring how the world ought to be from the way it is or was in the past
- Nature woo — the irrational belief in the goodness of all things deemed "natural", with the implicit or explicit fallacy of "appeal to nature"
- Supernatural