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.

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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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