ABSTRACT
The word 'naturalism' obviously has something to do with 'nature'. The physical universe is the sum total of all physical things. Naturalism is the thesis that all things are physical things. The work of Bernard Bolzano and F. Brentano and A. Meinong is of immense importance to an understanding of the history of analytical philosophy. Analytical philosophy, insofar as it draws on anything outside philosophy, draws on formal logic and mathematics and the physical and biological sciences. Analytical philosophers have a particularly collegial relationship with the great philosophers of history. Analytical philosophy, by its very nature, is neither the friend nor the enemy of supernaturalism. And, by the same token, analytical philosophy can be neither the friend nor the enemy of naturalism. Analytical philosophy is not in any useful sense of the word a school of philosophy; it is rather a philosophical community, a community of philosophical discourse.
