CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF GEORGE EDWARD MOORE’S DIRECT REALIST EPISTEMOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF COGNITION.

CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF GEORGE EDWARD MOORE’S DIRECT REALIST EPISTEMOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF COGNITION.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1  Background to the Study

This research work was motivated by some of the intricate issues raised by Absolute idealism (Metaphysical monism) to interpret with certainty and objectivity existent reality. Some of these issues are summarized as follows

(i)  All realities are internally related (doctrine of internal relations)

(ii) The objective truths (for example, of logic mathematics, ethics, etc) are to be accounted for in terms of the operations of the subjective cognitive or psychological faculties (psychologism).

(iii) Objective knowledge is of the universal.

(iv) There exist universal minds to which others are subsumed.