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Moore's Appeal To Common Sense1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Alan R. White
Alan R. White
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University of Hull
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I believe that Moore's appeal to common sense has been misunder-stood both by his defenders and his critics. Besides the mistakes of the latter, there is one enormous howler which, in my opinion, the former have committed. This is to confuse or coalesce two quite distinct appeals which he made, namely the appeal to common sense and the appeal to ordinary language.

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Philosophy , Volume 33 , Issue 126 , July 1958 , pp. 221 - 239
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1958

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