Moore’s Paradox and the Priority of Belief Thesis

• Main Author: WILLIAMS, John N.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Moore’s paradox; Assertion; Belief; Absurdity; Irrationality; Expression; Norms; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1188; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2444/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Moore’s paradox is the fact that assertions or beliefs such as Bangkok is the capital of Thailand but I do not believe that Bangkok is the capital of Thailand or Bangkok is the capital of Thailand but I believe that Bangkok is not the capital of Thailand are ‘absurd’ yet possibly true. The current o...