Naturalistic fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The naturalistic fallacy is often claimed to be a formal fallacy. It was described and named by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica . Moore stated that a naturalistic...
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Encyclopedia information on Naturalistic Fallacy ... Naturalistic fallacy was originally presented by G.E. Moore in his book Principia Ethics in 1903, though first addressed by David Hume in the 18th century. In the 21st century, it deals with ethics as well as other philosophical topics in natural science,
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1. The Naturalistic Fallacy ... This suggests that the naturalistic fallacy is not well named in that it is not specifically a problem for naturalists, and Moore admits as much. If the point were purely terminological then it would be trifling but an important philosophical point is at stake here.
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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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IF there is any contribution to moral philosophy which is more likely than any other to become permanently associated with the name of Professor G. E. Moore, it is the identification and refutation, in his Principia Ethica, 1 of what he calls the 'naturalistic fallacy'.
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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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