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On Appeals to Nature and their Use in the Public Controversy over Genetically Modified Organisms
Informal Logic Pub Date : 2018-09-14 , DOI: 10.22329/il.v38i3.5050
Andrei Moldovan

In this paper I discuss appeals to nature, a particular kind of argument that has received little attention in argumentation theory. After a quick review of the existing literature, I focus on the use of such arguments in the public controversy over the acceptabil-ity of genetically-modified organisms in the food industry. Those who reject this biotechnology invoke its unnatural character. Such arguments have re-ceived attention in bioethics, where they have been analyzed by distinguishing different meanings that “nature” and “natural” might have. I argue that in many such appeals to nature the main deficiency of these arguments is semantic, in particular, that these words cannot be assigned a determi-nate meaning at all. In doing so, I rely on semantic externalism, a widely accepted theory of linguistic meaning.

中文翻译:

对自然的诉求及其在转基因生物公共争议中的应用

在本文中,我讨论诉诸自然,这是一种在论证理论中很少受到关注的特殊论证。在快速回顾现有文献后,我将重点放在关于食品工业中转基因生物可接受性的公众争议中的这些论点的使用。那些拒绝这种生物技术的人会援引其不自然的特性。这些论点在生物伦理学中受到了关注,通过区分“自然”和“自然”可能具有的不同含义来对其进行分析。我认为,在许多此类对自然的诉求中,这些论点的主要缺陷在于语义,尤其是这些词根本无法被赋予确定的含义。在这样做时,我依赖语义外在主义,这是一种被广泛接受的语言意义理论。
更新日期:2018-09-14
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