Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
10-2010
Abstract
G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert ‘I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I do not believe that I did’ would be ‘absurd’. Moore calls it a ‘paradox’ that this absurdity persists despite the fact that what I say about myself might be true. Krista Lawlor and John Perry have proposed an explanation of the absurdity that confines itself to semantic notions while eschewing pragmatic ones. We argue that this explanation faces four objections. We give a better explanation of the absurdity both in assertion and in belief that avoids our four objections.
Keywords
Moore, Paradox, Assertion, Belief, Pragmatic, Semantic
Discipline
Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Acta Analytica
Volume
26
Issue
3
First Page
243
Last Page
255
ISSN
0353-5150
Identifier
10.1007/s12136-010-0110-0
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Citation
GREEN, Mitchell S., & WILLIAMS, John N..(2010). Moore’s Paradox, Truth and Accuracy. Acta Analytica, 26(3), 243-255.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/970
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-010-0110-0