{"id":33158,"date":"2021-05-31T21:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33158"},"modified":"2021-05-31T21:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:44:47","slug":"word-of-the-day-691","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/31\/word-of-the-day-691\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naturalistic fallacy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But, as that letter to Asa Gray shows, Darwin was\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>the kind to equate the natural and the good; he saw a wasp\u2019s painfully slow execution of a caterpillar as a product of natural selection yet still thought it was a bad thing. (Letting nature prescribe your values\u2014inferring \u201cought\u201d from \u201cis\u201d\u2014is so famously fallacious that it has a name: the naturalistic fallacy. Darwin\u2019s friend and loudest defender, Thomas Huxley, argued forcefully, in a lecture that was later published as the book\u00a0<em>Evolution and Ethics<\/em>, that nature is too cruel to serve as our moral guide.)<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nonzero.substack.com\/p\/the-truth-about-darwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Truth about Darwin<\/a>,&#8221; <\/em><strong>Nonzero Newsletter<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturalistic fallacy: But, as that letter to Asa Gray shows, Darwin was\u00a0not\u00a0the kind to equate the natural and the good; he saw a wasp\u2019s painfully slow execution of a caterpillar as a product of natural selection yet still thought it was a bad thing. (Letting nature prescribe your values\u2014inferring \u201cought\u201d \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/31\/word-of-the-day-691\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33159,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158\/revisions\/33159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}