Philosophy · Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy
A topic within Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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G. E. Moore
Argues that the idealist claim that reality is essentially mental confuses the act of experiencing a thing with the thing experienced, and that once separated the argument for idealism collapses.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Bertrand Russell
A definite description like 'the present King of France' does not refer to anything, and a sentence using it is not meaningless but simply false, once its underlying logical form is properly analysed — the founding move of analytic philosophy of language.
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