SOURCE: "G. E. Moore and Philosphers's Paradoxes," in Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 154-70.

In the following essay, Grice applies Moore's paradoxes to other philosophical questions.

I shall begin by discussing two linked parts of Moore's philosophy, one of which is his method of dealing with certain philosophical paradoxes, the other his attitude toward Common Sense. These are particularly characteristic elements in Moore's thought and have exerted great influence upon, and yet at the same time perplexed other British philosophers. Later in this paper I shall pass from explicit discussion of Moore's views to a consideration of ways of treating philosophical paradoxes which might properly be deemed to be either interpretations or developments of Moore's own position.

First, Moore's way of dealing with philosopher's paradoxes. By "philosopher's paradoxes" I mean (roughly) the kind of philosophical utterances which a layman might be expected to...