Advanced Article: Peter Geach Good and Evil

September 28, 2011
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Peter Geach argues that GE Moore confuses predicative adjectives “a brown horse” with attributive adjectives eg “a good philosopher” – where the word good here makes no sense without the noun because it is attributing certain skills etc to someone who is  “a philosopher”.  With a good philosopher the adjective cannot be separated from the concept of a philosopher – it is what Peter Geach calls an attributive adjective.  Here’s the full argument.

http://fair-use.org/peter-t-geach/good-and-evil

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