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naturalistic fallacy

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noun

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

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There are frequent examples of the naturalistic fallacy in popular discourse.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The naturalistic fallacy is related to the is-ought problem.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

For Moore, if philosophers based the judgment “x is good” on a set of facts, or natural properties, about x, they have committed the naturalistic fallacy.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

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.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2019

His book reviews on social theory and the environment, the naturalistic fallacy in environmentalism, and on competing approaches to copyright have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James

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