Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T06:42:37.834Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Pure Moorean Propositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2020

Roy A. Sorensen
Roy A. Sorensen*
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Newark, DE19716
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

This paper is devoted to a solution to Moore's problem. After explaining what Moore's problem is and after considering the main approaches toward solving the problem, I provide a definition of Moorean sentences in terms of pure Moorean propositions. My solution to Moore's problem essentially involves a description of how one can contradict oneself without uttering a contradiction, and a set of definitions that exactly determines which sentences are Moorean and which are close relatives of Moorean sentences.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 489 - 505
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 1985

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

•

This paper is a slightly modified version of the third chapter of my dissertation ‘Moore's Problem and the Prediction Paradox’. I thank two anonymous referees for their comments on an earlier draft.

References

1 Cohen's appeared in Mind, LVIV, 1950) 85-7.

2 Deutscher, Max ‘Bonney on Saying and Disbelieving,’ Analysis, 27, (1967) 184–6CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Williams's article appeared in Analysis, 39, (1979) 141-2

4 Hintikka, Jaakko Knowledge and Belief, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1962) 90–1Google Scholar

5 Cole's article appeared in Philosophical Studies, 36, (1979) 319-31