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George Edward Moore is related to the concept of %Truth through his philosophical analysis of the relationship between certainty and truth, specifically arguing that the truth of a statement like 'It is certain that p' requires that somebody knows p [1], [2], and distinguishing truth from certainty by noting that unknown things can be true but not certain [3].
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claimG.E. Moore contended that a thing cannot be certain unless it is known, distinguishing certainty from truth by noting that a thing that nobody knows may be true but cannot be certain.
claimG.E. Moore concluded that a necessary condition for the truth of the statement 'It is certain that p' is that somebody must know that p.
claimG.E. Moore argued that the statements "I know for certain that p" and "It is certain that p" cannot be true unless the proposition p is true.