| 单词 | naturalistic fallacy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnaturalistic fallacy b. Ethics. Of the nature of, characterized by, or based on naturalism (naturalism n. 1); relying wholly on the deductions of human reason; spec. in naturalistic fallacy: the definition of a quality by its attributes. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [adjective] > of other doctrines and their adherents physiophilosophical1858 naturalistic1860 primitivistic1898 1860 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. (1861) 9 The supporters of what may be termed the naturalistic theory of politics. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iii. 101 For the old humanistic worship..it substituted a naturalistic cult. 1894 J. Seth Study of Ethical Princ. iii. ii. 398 A naturalistic scheme of morality, the correlation of the ethical with the physical process. 1903 G. E. Moore Principia Ethica i. 10 Far too many philosophers have thought that when they named those..properties they were..defining good; that these properties..were..absolutely and entirely the same with goodness. This view I propose to call the ‘naturalistic fallacy’. 1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic vi. 157 We have already rejected the ‘naturalistic’ theories which are commonly supposed to provide the only alternative to ‘absolutism’ in ethics. 1965 Philosophy 40 308 The attack on the naturalistic fallacy..has been welcomed. 1988 T. L. S. Sprigge Rational Found. Ethics iii. 74 I have already suggested that Moore's doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy is one of the inspirations for attitudinism. < as lemmas |
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