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GE Moore's "Barren Analytic Truth"
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:47 pm
by homaip
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"?
Re: GE Moore's "Barren Analytic Truth"
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:51 pm
by Impenitent
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"?
to be is to be perceived ... perception is necessarily synthetic and the truth of the statement is empirically verified...
the opposite is not empirically verified and true by definition alone... definitional truths are circular...
of course he could mean less...
-Imp
Re: GE Moore's "Barren Analytic Truth"
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:18 pm
by homaip