• The open-question argument is a philosophical argument put forward by British philosopher G. E. Moore in §13 of Principia Ethica (1903), to refute the...
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  • logic, begging the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the...
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  • irrealist account for the truth of moral sentences. According to the open question argument (originally articulated by intuitionist and non-naturalist G. E...
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  • verifiable solution, but which has not yet been solved Open-question argument, a philosophical argument put forward by British philosopher G. E. Moore Naturalistic...
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    argument for the indefinability of 'good' (and thus for the fallaciousness in the "naturalistic fallacy") is often termed the open-question argument;...
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  • (disambiguation) Open problem, or open question Open-question argument, a philosophical argument put forward by British philosopher G. E. Moore This disambiguation...
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    factual statements. A similar view is defended by G. E. Moore's open-question argument, intended to refute any identification of moral properties with...
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  • and 590 nanometers, because yellow is all that and more, by the open question argument. Some people use the phrase, naturalistic fallacy or appeal to nature...
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  • idea of a conscience. Moore also introduced what is called the open-question argument, a position he later rejected. Suppose a definition of "good" is...
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  • assumption. This is based on Worley's central arguments that there are two different kinds of open and closed questions: grammatical and conceptual. He argues...
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  • whom?] by ethical non-naturalist G. E. Moore, who formulated the open-question argument. Garner and Rosen say that a common definition of "natural property"...
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    Fred (2005). "The Open Question Argument: What It Isn't; and What It Is", Philosophical Issues vol. 15. The Open Question Argument: What it Isn’t; and...
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  • An argument is a series of sentences, statements, or propositions some of which are called premises and one is the conclusion. The purpose of an argument...
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  • because moral properties are sui generis. This can be seen in Moore's open-question argument. In political philosophy, the unparalleled development of the European...
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    often assumed without much argument that each infinite regress is vicious but this assumption has been put into question in contemporary philosophy....
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  • the sense of self is illusory. The answer to the vertiginous question according to open individualism is that all experiences are "live”, but the illusion...
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  • ISBN 978-0-521-85356-9. Feldman (2005), p. 25. Feldman, Fred (2005). "The Open Question Argument: What It Isn't; and What It Is", Philosophical Issues 15, Normativity...
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  • recognized – rather than an error in semantics. In Moore's open-question argument, because questions such as "Is that which is pleasurable good?" have no definitive...
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  • article 3, question 2, first part of his Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas developed his five arguments for God's existence. These arguments are grounded...
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    Straw man (redirect from Strawman argument)
    argument against Y were an argument against X. This reasoning is a fallacy of relevance: it fails to address the proposition in question by misrepresenting the...
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  • In the philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God based upon observational and factual statements concerning...
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  • Ethics (redirect from Moral questions)
    Metaethics Sayre-McCord 2023, Lead section, § 4. Is/Ought and the Open Question Argument DeLapp, Lead section, § 6. Epistemological Issues in Metaethics...
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  • priori awareness of moral properties or of moral truths. Moore's open question argument against what he considered the naturalistic fallacy was largely...
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  • pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it. "The effectiveness of rhetorical questions in argument comes from their dramatic quality. They...
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    naturalistic fallacy, with particular attention to the logic of an open question argument". Lange summed it up in an interview by saying "if one cannot make...
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  • argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend...
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    An argument map or argument diagram is a visual representation of the structure of an argument. An argument map typically includes all the key components...
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  • happiness". The underlying argument is that the question "Is what is good what maximizes happiness?" is an open question, unlike the question "Is what is good what...
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    entitled to open the argument. The defendant usually goes second. The plaintiff or prosecution is usually then permitted a final rebuttal argument. In some...
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    The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the Kalam (medieval Islamic...
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