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    G.E. Moore — Carmelics
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    G.E. Moore

    G.E. Moore

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    1873 – 1958

    George Edward Moore (1873-1958) was a British philosopher and a founding figure of analytic philosophy alongside Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is renowned for his defense of common sense realism, his refutation of idealism, and his foundational contributions to metaethics, particularly the identification of the naturalistic fallacy.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Identified the naturalistic fallacy in Principia Ethica (1903)

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    Defended common sense realism in 'A Defence of Common Sense' (1925)

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    Offered the famous 'Here is one hand' proof of an external world

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    Co-founded analytic philosophy with Russell and Wittgenstein

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    Edited the journal Mind from 1921 to 1947

    Positions & Arguments

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    Skepticism

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    Intuition is the only valid basis for holding and asserting self-evident propositions.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Intuition is the only valid basis for holding and asserting self-evident propositions.

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

    Philosophy of Language

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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on which vector properties are both necessarily extrinsic and capable of being fundamental

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    Any theory that explains 'good' as an optative in unasserted contexts would render obviously valid arguments invalid by treating them as equivocal

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    The question 'Can God know all the places of the expansion of π?' is strictly senseless.

    Modality & Possibility

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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on which vector properties are both necessarily extrinsic and capable of being fundamental

    Divine Attributes

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    The question 'Can God know all the places of the expansion of π?' is strictly senseless.

    Natural Theology

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

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    Ideas

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    Analytic Philosophy

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    Philosophy of Language3
    Truth & Knowledge2
    Modality & Possibility1
    Natural Theology1
    Skepticism1
    Divine Attributes1

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