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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 fallacy is not in thinking that the entire genome matters, but in thinking that an individual gene will matter, at least in a way that is large and intelligible enough for us to care about.
This suggests that the naturalistic fallacy is not well named in that it is not specifically a problem for naturalists, and Moore admits as much.
Although this definition of fallacy is not nearly as widely accepted as Hamblin intimated (see Hansen 2002), others have taken to calling it "the standard definition of fallacies" and for convenience we can refer to it as SDF.
This problem, known as ecological fallacy, is not always handled properly by researchers; this leads some to jump to conclusions that their data do not necessarily support.
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SH It is the pathetic fallacy, isn't it?
"This is probably built on a bit of a fallacy isn't it?" he said.
As he repeatedly states, what is required in order to disambiguate fallacies is not a deeper knowledge of the rules of logic but a recognition that arguments need to be evaluated within their wider linguistic and argumentative context.
The creation of the category of non-logical fallacies is not really a break with Aristotle as much as it is a break with what had become the Aristotelian tradition.
One reason to think that it is not effective is that the list of fallacies is not complete, and that even if the group of core fallacies was extended to incorporate other fallacies we thought worth including, we could still not be sure that we had a complete prophylactic against bad arguments.
Pointing out these fallacies isn't popular because they come from esteemed people.
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