Sunday, May 02, 2004

Sharp Blue: Consilience & The Naturalistic Fallacy

Sharp Blue: Consilience
... the naturalistic fallacy, the idea that what is natural is also moral.

Great review -- I'd heard of consilience but this review has put it on my read list. I also loved the name for a terribly common fallacy, a variant of which is the idea that "that which is natural is also healthy" -- the herbal medicine fallacy.

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