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1873–1958 England

George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958), also known as G. E.

England
Logicians
Philosophers

Also known as: G E Moore, G.E. Moore, George Edward Moore, Moore, George Edward

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I am one of those philosophers who have held that that "the Common Sense view of the world" is in certain fundamental features, wholly true.

It is raining but I do not believe that it is.

The study of Ethics would, no doubt, be far more simple, and its results far more "systematic," if, for instance, pain were an evil of exactly the same magnitude as pleasure is a good; but we have no reason whatever to assume that the Universe is such that ethical truths must display this kind of symmetry ... .

Principia Ethica (1903)

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