naturalistic fallacy
nounEtymology
Introduced by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica.
Definitions
The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or…
The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or automatically bad because it is unnatural.
- No, we do not have to put moral reasoning in a special category and use transcendental premises, because the posing of the naturalistic fallacy is itself a fallacy. For if ought is not is, what is?
- It is easy to fall prey to the naturalistic fallacy, which suggests that because the companies are successful, they must also be right.
Any attempt to define "good" verbally, instead of treating it as an undefined term, in…
Any attempt to define "good" verbally, instead of treating it as an undefined term, in terms of which other terms are defined.
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