Moore's insistence that 'good' is a sui generis non-natural property knowable through intellectual perception places him closer to rationalist non-naturalists like Price than to Hutcheson's intuitionism.
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intellectual perception(how Moore thought we come to know what is 'good')
A way of knowing or understanding something through pure thinking and reason, rather than through your five senses—like how you 'see' a logical truth in your mind.
intuitionism(Mill's characterisation of a target he rejected; linked to conservative deference to inherited belief)
The view that anything a person believes deeply enough must be true, such that conviction itself is taken as justification.
rationalist non-naturalist(the category Moore is being placed in)
A philosopher who believes we can know certain truths purely through reason and thinking (rationalist), and that some of these truths exist outside the physical, natural world (non-naturalist).
sui generis(Used to characterize goodness if naturalistic definitions all fail.)
A notion that can only be understood in its own terms — in this context, goodness can only be understood in evaluative, not empirical or naturalistic, terms.