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Philosophical Studies

by G. E. Moore (1873–1958)

19 chapters, about 111,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. CONTENTS 200 words
2. PREFACE 500 words
3. THE REFUTATION OF IDEALISM 9,800 words
4. THE NATURE AND REALITY OF OBJECTS OF PERCEPTION 22,200 words
5. WILLIAM JAMES 300 words
6. (I) 10,600 words
7. (II) 3,400 words
8. (III) 1,900 words
9. HUME'S PHILOSOPHY 6,800 words
10. THE STATUS OF SENSE-DATA 1,300 words
11. (I) 4,600 words
12. (II) 3,900 words
13. THE CONCEPTION OF REALITY 7,300 words
14. SOME JUDGMENTS OF PERCEPTION 11,500 words
15. THE CONCEPTION OF INTRINSIC VALUE 7,500 words
16. EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL RELATIONS 5,100 words
17. °B = A.° 1,000 words
18. AQ * AR, 2,500 words
19. THE NATURE OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY 10,300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Agnosticism
• Awareness
• Evidence
• Explanation
• Idealism
• Identity of indiscernibles
• Judgment (law)
• Judgment (mathematical logic)
• Mental event
• Objectivity (science)
• Observation
• Property (philosophy)
• Sense data
• View (Buddhism)

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