naturalistic fallacy

noun

1. the supposed fallacy of inferring evaluative conclusions from purely factual premises Compare Hume's law non-naturalism

Example Sentences

The third is most difficult to address, he says, based on "the naturalistic fallacy", where people reason that natural things are good and unnatural things are bad.

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But while you can argue that evolution has aligned us with certain conceptions of family, it’s a naturalistic fallacy to say that they’re necessarily better for us.

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That puts my dad ahead of Stephanie Messenger and the other abusive parents who are willing to let their children risk death — and have other, vulnerable people risk infection — because they have been taken with the naturalistic fallacy.

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That’s the naturalistic fallacy—the claim that because something is a certain way in nature, it ought to be that way all the time.

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Last month, Mark Davis and colleagues argued in Nature that experts and laypeople are committing a naturalistic fallacy when it comes to favoring native species over nonnative or invasive species.

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