Meliorism
![William James was an earlier adherent to meliorism as a halfway between metaphysical optimism and pessimism.](/Images/godic/202501/26/William_james_small0607.png")
Meliorism is an idea in metaphysical thinking holding that progress is a real concept leading to an improvement of the world. It holds that humans can, through their interference with processes that would otherwise be natural, produce an outcome which is an improvement over the aforementioned natural one.