Your story is pretty close. I’m looking for the “what it is” first, and I kind of hope the “why it might be worth learning” is as obvious from that as it seems. There’s already parts of the sequence that I’ve enjoyed and found worth learning, especially examples of very complex interactions that are difficult to reduce to independently-modelable parts. But it’s not adding up in my head to anything coherent enough to get a name, certainly not something as evocative as “Naturalism”.
I apologize for my treating it as “compared to empiricism”. It may be I’m overreacting to openings like “Ordinarily, when someone is trying to solve a problem, experimentation is where they begin.”, which is both incorrect AND implies that this is something very different from “ordinary”.
Your story is pretty close. I’m looking for the “what it is” first, and I kind of hope the “why it might be worth learning” is as obvious from that as it seems. There’s already parts of the sequence that I’ve enjoyed and found worth learning, especially examples of very complex interactions that are difficult to reduce to independently-modelable parts. But it’s not adding up in my head to anything coherent enough to get a name, certainly not something as evocative as “Naturalism”.
I apologize for my treating it as “compared to empiricism”. It may be I’m overreacting to openings like “Ordinarily, when someone is trying to solve a problem, experimentation is where they begin.”, which is both incorrect AND implies that this is something very different from “ordinary”.