naturalistic fallacy

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Definition of naturalistic fallacy in English Turkish dictionary

doğal yanılgısı

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Definition of naturalistic fallacy in English English dictionary

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

Fallacy of treating the term "good" (or any equivalent term) as if it were the name of a natural property. In 1903 G.E. Moore presented in Principia Ethica his "open-question argument" against what he called the naturalistic fallacy, with the aim of proving that "good" is the name of a simple, unanalyzable quality, incapable of being defined in terms of some natural quality of the world, whether it be "pleasurable" (John Stuart Mill) or "highly evolved" (Herbert Spencer). Since Moore's argument applied to any attempt to define good in terms of something else, including something supernatural such as "what God wills," the term "naturalistic fallacy" is not apt. The open-question argument turns any proposed definition of good into a question (e.g., "Good means pleasurable" becomes "Is everything pleasurable good?") Moore's point being that the proposed definition cannot be correct, because if it were the question would be meaningless

Hyphenation

na·tu·ral·is·tic fal·la·cy

Turkish pronunciation

näçrılîstîk fälısi

Pronunciation

/ˌnaʧrəˈləstək ˈfaləsē/ /ˌnæʧrəˈlɪstɪk ˈfæləsiː/