[lbo-talk] Marx, Keynes and the Koran

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That's not the argument. The Refutation of Idealism is
based on the not-insane idea, in fact the idea that I
think is true, that we have direct perceptions of
medium sized material things, therefore, they exist.
The idealistic/skeptical premise (invoked by Berkeley,
Hume, and Russell) that Moore denied is that we have
to _infer_ the existence of material things from
mental states, but such inferences cannot be trusted
(skepticism) or are dispensable because we can operate
with just the mental states, ideas, images (idealism).
Moore's claim isn't "I think I have a hand, so I have
one," which would be ineffective against the inference
in question. Moore's argument is rather that there is
no inference that allows the skeptical or idealist
move to be made. Look! here's my hand! Not: trust me
that I think I see a hand and can therefore infer that
an actual hand caused me to have this idea/belief.

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> 
> Moore's goofy "I know I have a hand -- therefore the
> external world exists!" "rebuttal" of subjective
> idealism was required reading when I was a
> philosophy
> undergrad in 1992 for the Anglo-American Philosophy
> course.
> 
> That argument is my nomination for the No. One Bad
> Philosophical Argument Hall of Shame.
> 
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> \> Btw Moore is not unread today if you are studying
> > philosophical ethics. I just sold my old copy of
> > Principia Ethica, which I won't read again, to a
> > philosophy student at, I think, Harvard.
> > 
> 
> Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
> 
> ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ËÞÁÎ, ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ÆÈÒÜ!
> 
> 
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