Moore's paradox
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Moore's paradox concerns the apparent absurdity involved in asserting a first-person present-tense sentence such as, "It's raining but I don't believe that it is raining" or "It's raining but I believe that it is not raining." The first author to note this apparent absurdity was G.E. Moore.
See also
- Belief
- Consistency
- Doublethink
- Doxastic logic
- Epistemology
- Contradiction
- Irrationality
- List of paradoxes
- Philosophy of Mind
- Rationality
- Self-knowledge (psychology)
- Self-deception
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