Moralistic fallacy

What it is

Infers that something is the case because it would be good (or is not the case because it would be bad), the mirror image of the is-ought slip.

Related

• Appeal to nature fallacy
  Appeal to nature and the moralistic fallacy both assume that nature and goodness line up.
• Is-ought fallacy fallacy
  These cross in opposite directions: is-ought derives how things should be from how they are, the moralistic fallacy derives how they are from how they should be.

References

• Wikipedia: Moralistic fallacy en.wikipedia.org
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies iep.utm.edu
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Fallacies plato.stanford.edu
• Wikipedia: List of fallacies en.wikipedia.org
• Purdue OWL: Logical fallacies owl.purdue.edu

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