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Naturalistic fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Appeal to nature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Appeal to nature is a fallacy of relevance consisting of a claim that something is good or right because it is natural, or that something is bad or wrong because it is unnatural. In this type of fall...
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I have included the term "naturalistic fallacy" as an alias for this fallacy, though it is misleading. The term "naturalistic fallacy" was coined by the philosopher G. E. Moore, in his book Principia Ethica, to describe an alleged mistake in ethics: defining "good" in naturalistic terms.
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Nagel combined the pragmatic method of Peirce with the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. ... Quine proposed a naturalistic epistemology, understood as empirical study of the origins and uses of sensory information. ... A fallacy of the form:
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Glossary of Religion and Philosophy - naturalistic fallacy ... The naturalistic fallacy is said to occur when someone argues about what ought to happen using as their premises only what is the case. The fallacy is usually criticized as deriving ought from is.
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It may be useful, nevertheless, to examine the so-called "naturalistic fallacy"; by correcting the mistake implicit in the formulation of it, we can clarify the meaning of "good" without attempting to define it.
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And, if we do not endorse Christian morality, then the only alternative is moral anarchy: "Naturalistic metaphysics leads inexorably to relativism in ethics and politics." Curiously, in my book on naturalism, the very thing I was trying to do was to get away from relativism.
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