naturalistic fallacy

Noun

Meaning

The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or automatically bad because it is unnatural.
Synonym: appeal to nature

Any attempt to define "good" verbally, instead of treating it as an undefined term, in terms of which other terms are defined.

Examples

Bentham criticized natural law theory because in his view it was a naturalistic fallacy, claiming that it described how things ought to be instead of how things are. Source: Internet

Different common uses The is–ought problem main The term "naturalistic fallacy" is sometimes used to describe the deduction of an "ought" from an "is" (the is–ought problem ). Source: Internet

He rejects the idea of the naturalistic fallacy as the idea that ethics is in some free-floating realm, writing that the fallacy is to rush from facts to values. Source: Internet

The naturalistic fallacy is the assumption that because the words 'good' and, say, 'pleasant' necessarily describe the same objects, they must attribute the same quality to them. Source: Internet

The naturalistic fallacy is the idea that what is found in nature is good. Source: Internet

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