naturalistic fallacy

Noun

  • The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or automatically bad because it is unnatural; an 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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