Moore's Paradox

G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert, ''I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don''t believe that I did'' would be ''absurd''. Moore calls it a ''paradox'' that this absurdity persists despite the fact that what I say about myself might be true. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers and other students of language, logic, and cognition. Ludwig Wittgens...