I'm reading Moore's "Refutation of Idealism," but I'm stuck on a concept.
What does Moore mean when he says Esse est percipi must express a necessary synthetic truth? What does he mean by writing the opposite would be a "barren analytic truth"?
GE Moore's "Barren Analytic Truth"
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Re: GE Moore's "Barren Analytic Truth"
to be is to be perceived ... perception is necessarily synthetic and the truth of the statement is empirically verified...homaip wrote:I'm reading Moore's "Refutation of Idealism," but I'm stuck on a concept.
What does Moore mean when he says Esse est percipi must express a necessary synthetic truth? What does he mean by writing the opposite would be a "barren analytic truth"?
the opposite is not empirically verified and true by definition alone... definitional truths are circular...
of course he could mean less...
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