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Singapore Management University

2012

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Moore-Paradoxical Assertion, Fully Conscious Belief And The Transparency Of Belief, John N. Williams Mar 2012

Moore-Paradoxical Assertion, Fully Conscious Belief And The Transparency Of Belief, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

I offer a novel account of the absurdity of Moore-paradoxical assertion in terms of an interlocutor’s fully conscious beliefs. This account starts with an original argument for the principle that fully conscious belief collects over conjunction. The argument is premised on the synchronic unity of consciousness and the transparency of belief.