Abstract

In G.E. Moore's lectures from 1910–11, "Some Main Problems of Philosophy", it is suggested that we sometimes know immediately such facts as, e.g., 'This pencil exists'. In the present book, the author traces the fate of that idea in Moore's well-known essays "A Defence of Common Sense" and "Proof of an External World". In parallell with this interpretative work, a number of distinctions of importance for the contemporary discussion about immediate knowledge are also put forward.