G.E. Moore argued against ethical naturalism and called the attempt to identify goodness with a natural quality a mistake.
He said the claim that moral statements can be verified or falsified using evidence is to commit the naturalistic fallacy.
He based his argument on David Hume who thinks that to derive an 'ought' from an 'is' is logically invalid.
He says we cannot infer from a description of how the world is to how the world ought to be.
Moore used the 'open question argument
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