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...

logic, begging the question or assuming the conclusion (Latin: petītiō principiī) is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the...

irrealist account for the truth of moral sentences. According to the open question argument (originally articulated by intuitionist and non-naturalist G. E...

verifiable solution, but which has not yet been solved Open-question argument, a philosophical argument put forward by British philosopher G. E. Moore Naturalistic...

argument for the indefinability of 'good' (and thus for the fallaciousness in the "naturalistic fallacy") is often termed the open-question argument;...

by the open question argument. Bernard Williams called Moore's use of the term naturalistic fallacy, a "spectacular misnomer", the question being metaphysical...

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...

factual statements. A similar view is defended by G. E. Moore's open-question argument, intended to refute any identification of moral properties with...

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...

a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion. A wide variety of arguments for and against the existence of God can be categorized as logical, empirical...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

often assumed without much argument that each infinite regress is vicious but this assumption has been put into question in contemporary philosophy....

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...

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...

A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, explanation...

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...

boundless complexity Open end (disambiguation) Open problem, or open question Open-question argument, a philosophical argument put forward by British...

pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it. "The effectiveness of rhetorical questions in argument comes from their dramatic quality. They...

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...

priori awareness of moral properties or of moral truths. Moore's open question argument against what he considered the naturalistic fallacy was largely...

Metaethics Sayre-McCord 2023, Lead Section, § 4. Is/Ought and the Open Question Argument DeLapp, Lead Section, § 6. Epistemological Issues in Metaethics...

argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend...

Benj Hellie's vertiginous question asks why, of all the subjects of experience out there, this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to...

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...

The Chinese room argument holds that a digital computer executing a computer program cannot have a "mind", "understanding", or "consciousness", regardless...

complex question, trick question, multiple question, fallacy of presupposition, or plurium interrogationum (Latin, 'of many questions') is a question that...

teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal'; also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument) is...