Moore's Paradox and Analysis of Moore's Account of the Paradox

Georg Edward Moore realized that although sentences like "p but I do not believe that p" and "p but I do believe that ~p" can have true content, their assertion can be absurd and paradoxical. Moreover, he realized that asserting the sentences in third-person or past tense forms are not absurd. Later on, it became clear that the sentences are not assertible nor truly believable. In this paper we will first introduce the most important features of the sentences; we will then, along with clarifying Moore's account for accommodating the sentences, argue that there are at least four criticisms against Moore's account and thus it is not tenable.