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Moore's Two Hands

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G. E. Moore's common-sense response: I know I have two hands; therefore an external world exists. A premise more certain than any skeptical conclusion wins.

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Moore raises one hand, then the other—claiming this proof outweighs, for certainty, every clever argument against it.