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Moore G. E. "Some Judgments of Perception" PAS. New Series. v. 1 9 . 1 9{8 pp. {-29. Reprinted by Gourtesy of the Editor of the Aristotelian Society: 1918 www-a ri stotel i ansoci ety. org. u k.
PAPERSRBAD BEFORETHE SOCIIITY. 191A- 19L9_
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Meet'ingat 22, Albemarle Street, W. 1, on Noaember4th, 1918, at 8 p.m.
:IHE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. I.-SOME
JUDGMENTS B y G .E .
OF PERCEPTION. l \{ o o n s .
I tt'ANt to raise some childishly simple questions as to what we are doing when rve make judgments of a certain kind, which we all do in fact exceedingly commonly make. The kind of judgments I mean are those which we make when, with regard to something which \ye are seeing, lve judge such things as " That is an inkstand," " Thab is a tableclobh," " That is a door," etc., etc.; or when, with regard to somebhing which we are feeling with our hands, we judge such things as " This is cloth," " This is a finger," " This is a coin," etc., etc. Ib is scarcely possible, I think, to exaggerate the frequency with rvhich lve ntake sucir judgments as these, nor yet the certainty rvith which we are able to make vasb numbers of them. Any man, who is noc blind, can, at almosbany momenf of his waking life, except when he is in the dark, make a large number of judgments of the first kind, with the greatest certainly. He has only to look about him, if he is indoors, to judge with regard to various things which he is seeing, sucli things as " That is a rvindow," " That is a chair," " This is a book"; or, if he is out-of-doors, such things as " That is ir house," "Thal is a motor-ear," " That is a nan," or "'l'lult, is a sto n e , "" T hat is a tre e ," " T h a b i s u , c l o u ri ." ol ' rrs, ' \r rrl tl l
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