Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "An appeal to nature is an argument or rhetorical tactic in which it is proposed that \"a thing is good because it is 'natural', or bad because it is 'unnatural'\". It is usually an invalid argument, because the implicit (unstated) primary premise \"What is natural is good\" typically is irrelevant, having no cogent meaning in practice, or is an opinion instead of a fact. In some philosophical frameworks where natural and good are clearly defined in a specific context, the appeal to nature might be valid and cogent."@en }
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- Appeal_to_nature abstract "An appeal to nature is an argument or rhetorical tactic in which it is proposed that \"a thing is good because it is 'natural', or bad because it is 'unnatural'\". It is usually an invalid argument, because the implicit (unstated) primary premise \"What is natural is good\" typically is irrelevant, having no cogent meaning in practice, or is an opinion instead of a fact. In some philosophical frameworks where natural and good are clearly defined in a specific context, the appeal to nature might be valid and cogent.".