ABSTRACT
Moore's method of appealing to common sense is no exception to his usual rule of silence. Fundamental to Moore’s defense is that the expressions he uses in it be understood according to their ordinary meaning. If key expressions such as ‘know that’, ‘Common Sense view of the world’, ‘human being’, ‘material object’, ‘space’, ‘time’, etc., are not used according to their ordinary sense, then the peculiar properties disappear and along with them the foundation of Moore’s defense. Moore states that one of the ways in which he differs from some other philosophers is that he is one of those philosophers who have held that the ‘Common Sense view of the world’ is, in certain fundamental features, wholly true. Double-images are also things which might properly be said to be presented in space, in Moore’s view, though they cannot properly be said to be met with in space.
