A counterexample to Moore paradox assertions

In his article Refutation by Elimination, John Turri offers a counterexample to Moore’s view that assertions of the form ‘P but I don’t believe that P’ are absurd.

The example involves an eliminativist: someone who thinks that belief talk does not actually refer, because beliefs do not pick out brain states.

If P is a proposition capturing the eliminativist doctrine, it is not absurd to assert ‘P but I don’t believe that P.’

Reference

Turri, J. 2010. Refutation by elimination. Analysis 70: 35-39.

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