ABSTRACT
I propose to consider in some little detail a view of the nature of philosophy which has been accepted in recent years by a number of very able thinkers in England and the usa. It may be formulated roughly as follows. The sole or the main business of philosophy is to analyse the various kinds of proposition which constitute the common-sense view of the world. For many philosophers this line of thought originates in the paper ‘A Defence of Common Sense’, which was G. E. Moore’s contribution to the collection of essays published in 1925 under the title Contemporary British Philosophy. It will be well worth while to devote some careful attention to this famous and very influential essay of Moore’s.
