The current standard interpretation of Moore’s proof assumes he offers a solution to Kant’s famously posed problem of an external world, which Moore quotes at the start of his 1939 lecture “Proof of an External World.” As a solution to Kant’s problem, Moore’s proof would fail utterly. A second received interpretation imputes an aim of refuting metaphysical idealism that Moore’s proof does not at all achieve. This study departs from received interpretations to credit the aim Moore announced for the proof Moore performed in his 1939 lecture. Moore’s aim was to impose a counterexample to a stated presupposition of Kant’s problem of an external world. Moore’s lecture nevertheless neither endorses a replacement for Kant’s problem nor acknowledges that an immediate implication of achieving his announced aim would subvert Kant’s famously posed problem of an external world.

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摩尔证明的要点

当前对摩尔证明的标准解释假设他为康德著名的外部世界问题提供了解决方案，摩尔在 1939 年演讲“外部世界的证明”的开头引用了该问题。作为康德问题的解决方案，摩尔的证明将彻底失败。第二个被接受的解释归咎于驳斥形而上学唯心主义的目的，而摩尔的证明根本没有实现。这项研究与公认的解释不同，将摩尔宣布的目标归功于摩尔在 1939 年的演讲中进行的证明。摩尔的目的是为康德关于外部世界问题的既定预设强加一个反例。