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Moore thought that ? good things exist for their own sake and can’t get analysed or broken down, like other things in the ? world. It’s not about proving these things but rather ? them.

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Intrinsically.
Physical.
Seeing.

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Good, according to Moore, is a simple ? thing.

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Indefinable.

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Moore was particularly concerned with ? ?, who argued that goodness can be defined, measured, quantified and ?

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Rejecting utilitarians.

Qualified.

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Moore thought that attempts to define good in terms of something else is the ? ?

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Naturalistic fallacy.

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“Good is good, and that is the end of the ?”.

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Matter.

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Moore says that philosophers who define good as being made up of something else, or based on other things, are making it a ? ?

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Complex notion.

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Moore played importance on ? as the thing that perceives, moral ?, rather than our senses.

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Intuition.

Goodness.

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In the absence of any recourse to some kind of ?, which Moore says we can’t rely on in ? matters, we simply have his word for the existence of these ?

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Proof.
Moral.
Intuitions.