naturalistic fallacy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalisticandfallacy
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naturalistic
adjective
uk/ˌnætʃ.ər.əlˈɪs.tɪk/us/ˌnætʃ.ɚ.rəˈlɪs.t̬ɪk/
Naturalistic art, literature, acting, etc. shows things as they ...
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fallacy
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæl.ə.si/us/ˈfæl.ə.si/
an idea that a lot of people think is true but is in ...
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(Definition ofnaturalisticandfallacyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In contrast, our commitment to thenaturalisticfallacyis considerably weaker.
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I have critiqued matrilineal descent, divine kingship, thenaturalisticfallacyconcerning the origins of descent groups and the myth of real kinship.
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Take, for example, one of the most basic objections, that of thenaturalisticfallacy.
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Their position is hence an elitist version of thenaturalisticfallacywherein normative status is ascribed to what more intelligent people do.
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In other cases, anti-adaptationists committed thenaturalisticfallacyand thought that adaptationists were excusing certain undesirable patterns of behavior when they claimed those behaviors were adaptations.
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It includes thenaturalisticfallacythat kin groups, descent groups in particular, arise because communities notice what they have been in the habit of doing and give it a name.
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That, in turn, suggests that there is no transcendental source of values and that the so-called 'naturalisticfallacy', that 'is' carries implications for 'ought' is appropriately named.
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In it he first wrote about what he called "thenaturalisticfallacy".
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This would be an example of what he referred to as thenaturalisticfallacy.
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Traditional institutionalism rejects the "reduction" of institutions to simply tastes, technology, and nature (seenaturalisticfallacy).
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The moralistic fallacy is used to be presented as the reverse of thenaturalisticfallacy.
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Thenaturalisticfallacyis the idea that what is found in nature is good.
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Thenaturalisticfallacydoes not apply to descriptive evolutionary ethics because no ethical statements are inferred from facts.
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In response to such criticism, evolutionary psychologists often caution against committing thenaturalisticfallacythe assumption that what is natural is necessarily a moral good.
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He named this confusion thenaturalisticfallacy.
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Moore's claim that there is anaturalisticfallacywhen one tries to analyse good and bad in terms of a natural concept.
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