Moore Defends Common Sense Against Skeptics and Others Who Deride

question 14

True/False

Moore defends common sense against skeptics and others who deride our ordinary beliefs. He insists that there is a vast amount of shared knowledge about the world, expressible in ordinary language and about which we can be quite certain. He provides an argument that he thinks decisively defeats skepticism about an external world: If skepticism is true, we do not have knowledge of the external world, but we obviously do have knowledge of the external world; therefore, skepticism is false.
-Moore rejects common sense and our ordinary beliefs.

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Definitions:

Obverse

The statement formed by negating both the subject and predicate of a given categorical proposition and changing the quality of the original proposition (from affirmative to negative or vice versa).

Proposition

A statement or assertion that expresses a judgment or opinion, which can be evaluated as true or false.

Obverse

The opposite or counterpart of a given statement, often involving negation.

Complement

In set theory, the set of all elements not in a specific set, relative to a larger set.