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G. E. Moore
George Edward Moore was an English philosopher who, alongside Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege, was an initiator of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasising the idealism which was then prevalent among British philosophers and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have…
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culture · English philosopher (1873–1958) · philosopher · university teacher · also G. E. Moore, GE Moore, George Edward Moore, George Moore, Moore
Born 4 November 1873 · Died 24 October 1958 · Q295386
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1958· 3 entries
Died 1958-10-24.
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“It is raining but I don't believe that it is.”
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“It is raining but I don't believe that it is raining.”
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (1951).
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1936· 1 entry
“Symposium: Is Existence a Predicate?”
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1923· 1 entry
“Are the Characteristics of Things Universal or Particular?”
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1918· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the British Academy (1918).
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“Some Judgments of Perception”
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1914· 1 entry
Moore traveled to Norway to visit Wittgenstein, here he took a series of notes later published as Notes dictated to G
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1903· 1 entry
“Review of Franz Brentano's The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong”
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1898· 1 entry
And was later University of Cambridge Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic from 1925 to 1939
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1892· 2 entries
Studied at Trinity College (1892).
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Began attending Trinity College, Cambridge, to learn classics and moral sciences
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1882· 1 entry
Studied at Dulwich College (1882).
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-11-04.
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