have you ever heard of the book "a proof of an external world" by G. E moore???

Question

did it prove that things exist outside of ourselves through philosophy or science?? and does it come to a logical philisophical and unrefutable conclusion that things exist independently from us??

Answer 1

This quote is from the first of the sources. There is a longer discussion at the other two sites.

Philosophers have certainly thought that sense experience was authoritative. G.E. Moore famously attempted to prove the existence of the external world by saying, while he held up his two hands in front of his face: here is one hand and here is another:

'I can prove now that two human hands exist. How? By holding up the two hands, and saying, as I make a certain gesture with the right hand, 'Here is one hand', and adding, as I make a certain gesture with the left hand 'and her is the other.'

G.E.Moore, 'A Proof of an external world', Philosophical Papers, Macmillan, New York, 1962.
Moore's paper "A Refutation of Idealism" is on-line here, courtesy Andrew Chrucky.GEORGE E. Moore:"A proof of an external world",

BOOKTITLE = "Philosophical Papers",
PUBLISHER = Macmillan, New York,1962