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The use of the term ‘naturoid’ calls for the resolution of an ambiguity that involves the concept of ‘artificial’ in many contexts. From a linguistic standpoint, the term artificial (artificiale in Italian, künstlich in German, artificiel in French) covers a heterogeneous area which should be clarified before we proceed. In all languages, this concept seems to generically indicate all that is “man-made” or “not natural” and, at the same time, though more rarely, something which tries to imitate things existing in nature.
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Negrotti, M. (2012). Artificiality and Naturoids. In: The Reality of the Artificial. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29679-6_2
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