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To: Solon who wrote (1367)1/5/2013 1:07:06 AM
From: Greg or e  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2133
 
LOL! "The moment you grant" his falacious philosophical premise you're GOLDEN!!!!

QUACK, QUACK, YOU PHONEY HACK!!!

"Harris commits what philosophers call “the naturalistic fallacy”: of attempting to draw conclusions concerning what we ought to do (normative conclusions) directly from premises that are purely factual, or scientific, and value-free (purely descriptive premises). Today I will show why such a move is fallacious, and draw attention to the way that Harris’s use of the ambiguous term “well-being” masks the fallacious move that his argument makes use of." blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk