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They therefore justify and legitimate the system by appeals to nature.
Physicians and patients should not let the appeal to nature much influence a decision for or against hormone replacement therapy.
An appeal to nature would thus beg the question, because the conclusion is entailed by the premise.
It is likely that "Lily Pond" will appeal to nature lovers.
Opinions differ regarding appeal to nature in rational argument.
This figure connected with divinity through appeal to nature and the emotional interplay of human drama.
But virtually alone in his time, he did not seek to validate his commitments by appeal to nature, God or science.
The fallacious appeal to nature would be the reverse of a moralistic fallacy: that what is good or right is thus natural.
Some popular examples of the appeal to nature can be found on labels and advertisements for food, clothing, and alternative herbal remedies.
The surrounding mountain ranges and the numerous lagoons and waterfalls appeal to nature lovers.
Appealing to nature, he has stated:
Thus the appeal to nature tended to mean an appeal to the nature of man treated as a source for norms of conduct.
Attempts to refute this fact with regard to alternative treatments sometimes use the appeal to nature fallacy, i.e., "that which is natural cannot be harmful".
In Book II, his appeal to nature as a source of activities, is more typically to the genera of natural kinds, however (secondary substance).
Like Kilauea, it has spawned a landscape of craters, forests, lava tubes, puu (hills) and otherworldly ecosystems that are irresistibly appealing to nature lovers.
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'".
How terribly liquid and convenient, never mind that it's ridiculous to expect complex lifeforms to adapt so broadly on a pittance of a timescale, fallacious to make appeals to nature and asinine to shift blame so clumsily.
The naturalistic fallacy is close to but not identical with the fallacious appeal to nature, the claim that what is natural is inherently good or right, and that what is unnatural is inherently bad or wrong.
In both cases, any argument whose conclusion is that something is good or right because it is natural, or that something is bad or wrong because it is unnatural or artificial is known as the appeal to nature fallacy.
Some people use the phrase "naturalistic fallacy" or "appeal to nature" to characterize inferences of the form "This behaviour is natural; therefore, this behaviour is morally acceptable" or "This property is unnatural; therefore, this property is undesireable."