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Name Professor Course Date Reaction to G. E. Moore's “Proof of an External World” In the beginning of his proof of external world Moore describes what an external object is. As he puts it an external object is a thing external to our minds. He gives an example of his body being external to his mind. Moore says that an external object should exist without being perceived. To prove the existence of the external world he suggested a two-part strategy. In strategy one Moore requested for some kind of object that if it existed then it exists without being perceived. In strategy two ideas. In section six Hume proposes that human understanding is based on probability. In section eight Hume explains human understanding as a necessity which has been canvassed and disputed with great eagerness. In section nine and ten the main point that Hume is trying to portray is the species of Analogy are the founding fact concerning all our reasoning. According to his reasoning the reasoning of animals is related to human understanding. The species of reasoning extended to all animals are the anatomical observations of Hume. Work CitedFeinberg Joel and Russ Shafer-Landau. Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy. 2013. Print. [...]
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read G. E. Moore's "Proof of an External World" and Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding." from book (Feinberg and Shafer-Landau. Reason and Responsibility, 15th edition. Wadsworth Publishing)
Subject Area: Philosophy
Document Type: Lab Report
