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To: econjack
Well, that may be but I don’t believe it!”

Wow she just stated G.E. Moore's paradox: P but I do not believe P. Moore thought these statements absurd, because they were psychologically impossible. Wittgenstein was interested in them because he though that they were logically impermissible even though they were not of the contradictory form: P and not-P.

18 posted on 11/24/2016 8:22:48 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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19 posted on 11/24/2016 7:02:36 PM PST by FreedomUS
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