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The naturalistic fallacy

שו”תCategory: philosophyThe naturalistic fallacy
asked 8 years ago

Hello Rabbi, I have heard many times about the naturalistic connection that indicates a failure to draw value conclusions from factual assumptions and vice versa. My question is why it is true. That is, what is really the problem with the transition between facts and values?

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מיכי Staff answered 8 years ago

The problem is that one does not necessarily follow from the other. Isn’t it clear to you that the assumption that the chair next to me is brown does not necessarily imply that it is beautiful? There is always another implicit assumption, for example that what is brown is beautiful.

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