According to Thornhill and Palmer, a naturalistic fallacy is to infer ethical conclusions ( e . g ., rape is good ) from ( true or false ) statements of fact ( e . g ., rape is natural ).
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Wilson " et al . " stated that Thornhill and Palmer dismiss all ethical objections with the phrase'naturalistic fallacy'although " it is Thornhill and Palmer who are thinking fallaciously by using the naturalistic fallacy in this way ."
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Wilson " et al . " stated that Thornhill and Palmer dismiss all ethical objections with the phrase'naturalistic fallacy'although " it is Thornhill and Palmer who are thinking fallaciously by using the naturalistic fallacy in this way ."
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Wilson et al . point out that combining a factual statement with an ethical statement to derive an ethical conclusion is standard ethical reasoning, not a naturalistic fallacy, because the moral judgment is not deduced " exclusively " from the factual statement.
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An example of the naturalistic fallacy would be approving of all wars if scientific evidence showed warfare was part of human nature, whereas an example of the moralistic fallacy would be claiming that, because warfare is wrong, it cannot be part of human nature.
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It has little to nothing to do with " nature " in the scientific sense ( which even in the scientific sense is a problematic concept see naturalistic fallacy, for example ) .-- talk ) 02 : 51, 24 March 2009 ( UTC)
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For him, traditional monolingualism is an instance of a more general naturalistic fallacy which is committed when foreign language teaching is modelled after the natural acquisition of a first language ( L1 ), as in the direct method ( education ) which was also called the natural method.
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Wilson " et al . " point out that combining a factual statement with an ethical statement to derive an ethical conclusion is standard ethical reasoning, not a naturalistic fallacy, because the moral judgment is not deduced " exclusively " from the factual statement.
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Wilson et al . have stated : " Any critic who objects to Thornhill and Palmer's evolutionary interpretation of rape on ethical grounds is dismissed with the phrase'naturalistic fallacy'like a child stupid enough to write 2 + 2 = 5, stifling any meaningful discussion of the ethical issues surrounding the subject of rape.
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Some people use the phrase " naturalistic fallacy " or " appeal to nature " to characterize inferences of the form " Something is natural; therefore, it is morally acceptable " or " This property is unnatural; therefore, this property is undesireable . " Such inferences are common in discussions of homosexuality, environmentalism, and veganism.
