Moore’s Hands

Penelope Maddy
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This essay suggests that the long, somewhat tedious run-up to the proof in Moore’s ‘A proof of an external world’ is designed to prepare the ground with common sense and experimentation (with after-images). Given that perspective, the proof, when it finally arrives, is necessarily trivial; the question is whether the skeptic can budge Moore from his home ground. Moore acknowledges that he can’t ‘prove’ his premises, because he can’t ‘prove’ he’s not dreaming, but nevertheless insists that he has conclusive evidence that he’s not dreaming and that asking for more is misguided. Precisely why it’s misguided is explicit in his lectures of 1933–1934, where Moore reasons ‘there are millions of stars’ is an established conclusion of astronomy: if the philosopher asserts it, he’s just repeating what the astronomers have already said; if he denies it, he’s contradicting the astronomers. Moore is more naturalistic than is often appreciated.
摩尔的手
这篇文章表明,在摩尔的《外部世界的证明》中,漫长而有些乏味的证明准备工作是为了用常识和实验(用后图像)做准备。基于这种观点,当证据最终出现时,它必然是微不足道的;问题是怀疑论者能否让摩尔离开他的家乡。摩尔承认他不能“证明”他的前提,因为他不能“证明”他不是在做梦,但他坚持认为他有确凿的证据证明他不是在做梦,要求更多是错误的。在他1933-1934年的讲座中,他解释说,“有数百万颗恒星”是天文学的既定结论:如果哲学家断言这一点,他只是在重复天文学家已经说过的话;如果他否认,他就是在反驳天文学家。摩尔比人们通常认为的更自然。
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