Is The Naturalistic Fallacy Really a Fallacy?

According to the conventional interpretation of Hume’s celebrated passage in the Treatise on “is” and “ought”, no set of nonmoral premises, or premises not containing a moral term or terms (used normatively) can entail a moral conclusion or statement containing a moral term or terms (used normatively). I shall argue that, thus interpreted, the naturalistic fallacy is only a fallacy if certain assumptions about the knower and the known are granted. These assumptions are peculiar to a modern way of looking at the world and were not shared by the worldviews which preceded it.