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A 1903 book argues that because yellowness is a “simple notion,” it may be subject to this error. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this error critiqued by the open-question argument, which is used to show that moral properties cannot be defined using properties like “pleasure.”
ANSWER: naturalistic fallacy
[10e] The naturalistic fallacy is often erroneously used to articulate this philosophical problem first identified by David Hume. This problem concerns deriving normative statements from descriptive statements.
ANSWER: is-ought problem [accept Hume’s guillotine; accept fact-value distinction]
[10h] This book calls the naturalistic fallacy a “spectacular misnomer” for misusing the word “naturalistic.” This 1985 Bernard Williams book criticizes systematizations of morality, which it calls a “peculiar institution.”
ANSWER: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
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