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Moore and term
" Moore saw Forth as a successor to compile-link-go third-generation programming languages, or software for " fourth generation " hardware, not a fourth-generation programming language as the term has come to be used.
Moore asserted that philosophical arguments can suffer from a confusion between the use of a term in a particular argument and the definition of that term ( in all arguments ).
Moore contends that even if such arguments are correct, they do not provide definitions for the term ' good.
The term has often been applied to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore over the years by both critics on the left and right due to his habit of traveling around New York City in a limousine.
Mike Moore was the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 1999 to 2002, his term coincided with momentous changes in the global economy and multilateral trading system.
" One plausible view is that Nazōraean ( Ναζωραῖος ) is a normal Greek adaptation of a reconstructed, hypothetical term in Jewish Aramaic for the word later used in Rabbinical sources to refer to Jesus .< ref > G. F. Moore, ‘ Nazarene and Nazareth ,’ in The Beginnings of Christianity 1 / 1, 1920 pp. 426-432, according to which Hebrew Nôṣri the gentilic used of Jesus from the Tannaitic period onwards, would have corresponded to a hypothetical Jewish Aramaic * Nōṣrāyā, which would have in turn produced * N < sup >< span style =" font-size: 80 %"> e </ span ></ sup > ṣōrāyā.
Moore stated that a naturalistic fallacy is committed whenever a philosopher attempts to prove a claim about ethics by appealing to a definition of the term " good " in terms of one or more natural properties ( such as " pleasant ", " more evolved ", " desired ", etc.
Moore stated that a naturalistic fallacy is committed whenever a philosopher attempts to prove a claim about ethics by appealing to a definition of the term " good " in terms of one or more natural properties ( such as " pleasant ", " more evolved ", " desired ", etc .).
But the statements do not give the meaning of the term " yellow ", and ( Moore argues ) to confuse them with a definition of " yellow " would be to commit the same fallacy that is committed when " Pleasure is good " is confused with a definition of " good ".
The target of Moore's discussion of the " naturalistic fallacy " is reductionism at least as much as it is naturalism specifically, and the important lesson, for Moore, is that the meaning of the term " good " and the nature of the property goodness are irreducibly sui generis.
Later, historians such as D. W. Robertson in the 1960s and John C. Moore and E. Talbot Donaldson in the 1970s, were critical of the term as being a modern invention, Donaldson calling it " The Myth of Courtly Love ", because it is not supported in medieval texts.
Some computer historians — and Eckert himself — believed that the widely-adopted term " von Neumann architecture " should properly be known as the " Eckert Architecture ," since the stored-program concept central to the von Neumann architecture had already been developed at the Moore School by the time von Neumann arrived on the scene in 1944-1945.
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Frances Moore was appointed the chief executive of IFPI with a term effective from 1 July 2010.
The English term was popularized by British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore in the 1950s, although he did not invent it.
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When referring to a matrix, the term pseudoinverse, without further specification, is often used to indicate the Moore – Penrose pseudoinverse.
The term gel permeation chromatography can be traced back to J. C. Moore of the Dow Chemical Company who investigated the technique in 1964 and the proprietary column technology was licensed to Waters, who subsequently commercialized this technology in 1964.
Despite being personally opposed to the death penalty, Kitzhaber allowed two executions to be carried out in his first term: Douglas Franklin Wright in 1996 and Harry Charles Moore in 1997.

Moore and naturalistic
Moore argued that once arguments based on the naturalistic fallacy had been discarded, questions of intrinsic goodness could only be settled by appeal to what he ( following Sidgwick ) called " moral intuitions :" self-evident propositions which recommend themselves to moral reflection, but which are not susceptible to either direct proof or disproof ( PE § 45 ).
Moore argued that hedonists commit the naturalistic fallacy.
Moore goes on to explain that he pays special attention to the fallacy as it occurs in ethics, and identifies that specific form of the fallacy as ' naturalistic ', because ( 1 ) it is so commonly committed in ethics, and ( 2 ) because committing the fallacy in ethics involves confusing a natural object ( such as survival or pleasure ) with goodness, something that is ( he argues ) not a natural object.
Moore advanced an argument for the indefinability of " good " ( and demonstrating the " naturalistic fallacy ") which is known as the Open Question Argument.
G. E. Moore published his Principia Ethica in 1903 and argued that the attempts of ethical naturalists to translate ethical terms ( like good and bad ) into non-ethical ones ( like pleasing and displeasing ) committed the " naturalistic fallacy ".
In a similar vein, G. E. Moore argued ( with his open question argument ) that the notion good is indefinable, and any attempts to analyze it in naturalistic or metaphysical terms are guilty of the so-called " naturalistic fallacy ".
Moore that the " naturalistic fallacy " is really a fallacy, he gave an entirely naturalistic analysis of goodness, holding that an experience is intrinsically good to the degree that it ( a ) fulfills an impulse or drive and ( b ) generates a feeling-tone of satisfaction attendant upon such fulfillment.
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 equating of the property good with some non-moral property, whether naturalistic ( e. g. pleasure ) or meta-physical ( e. g. God's command ).
Put another way, what Moore is saying is that any attempt to define good in terms of a naturalistic property fails because all definitions can be transformed into closed questions ( the subject and predicate being conceptually identical ; it is given in language itself that the two terms mean the same thing ); however, all purported naturalistic definitions of good are transformable into open questions.
Shortly before ( in section § 11 ), Moore said if you define good as pleasure ( or any other naturalistic property ) you could substitute “ good ” for “ pleasure ” anywhere it occurs.
Moore originated the term " the naturalistic fallacy " to refer to the ( alleged ) error of confusing goodness with some natural property, and he deployed the Open Question Argument to show why this was an error.
With his work on Swamp Thing, Alan Moore revolutionised the American comic book industry through his use of " precise, naturalistic dialogue.
Huxley's criticism alluded to the is-ought problem developed earlier by David Hume and the related naturalistic fallacy developed later by G. E. Moore.
British philosopher G. E. Moore ( Principia Ethica ) demonstrated that all systems of naturalistic ethics, including evolutionary ethics, are flawed.
According to philosopher G. E. Moore ( see above ) all systems of naturalistic ethics, including normative evolutionary ethics, do commit the naturalistic fallacy.
It is the famous naturalistic fallacy ( G. E. Moore ).

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