Editorial

Author

• Morteza Gharaei(trans) George Edward Moore(author)

Faculty Member of K. N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

"The Refutation of Idealism" (1903) is considered by some historians of philosophy as starting- point of analytic philosophy. In this paper, Moore argued that there is a crucial premise that is essential to all possible arguments for the idealistic conclusion that "All reality is mental (spiritual)". This premise is: "To be is to be perceived" (in the broad sense of 'perceive'). Moore argued that, under every possible interpretation of it, that pemise is either a tautology or false; hence no significant conclusion can ever be inferred from it. As a result of Moore argument, idealism was replaced with realism in contemporary western philosophy.

Keywords

• idealism
• G.E. Moore
• perceive
• reality
• realism