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noun
The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or automatically bad because it is unnatural.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: appeal to nature
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noun
Any attempt to define "good" verbally, instead of treating it as an undefined term, in terms of which other terms are defined.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Introduced by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica.
