About this title: If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc
Date Published: 1946
Description: Good. Paperback, cover worn, crinkled, some edge tearing. Pages tight, with underlining & notations. Presents a modified version of logical positivism which he called 'logical empiricism'. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1952-06-01
ISBN-13:9780486200101ISBN:0486200108
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1952-06-01
ISBN-13:9780486200101ISBN:0486200108
Description: Very Good. This is a very nice paperback copy. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. P/O name is on FFEP. Light edge and corner wear. read more
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"Clear exposition on the nature of propositions, especially on why certain propositions are "meaningless." Despite its age, highly dense prose, and presupposition of the so-called Principle of Verification, this book remains relevant to those keenly interested in the nature of Language and Truth."
"Brash, ballsy, brainy, take-no-prisoners philosophy from a guy who was in his mid-twenties.
Now I understand why logical positivism and its ilk got such an enthusiastic response.
Shorter Ayer: Much of what is marketed today as philosophy isn't philosophy. It's so mistaken that it isn't even coherent enough to be wrong. Metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, theology, and their cousins are all hereby banished. All of the opinions that have been expressed on these topics are agglomerations of words that are impenetrable by meaningful philosophical investigation and are therefore meaningless linguistic artifacts that can be of no interest except to disciplines like psychology, sociology, & anthropology. I shall now go on to solve the mind/body and idealism vs. realism non-problems, the monist/pluralist debate, reveal the nature of the self, and abolish all "schools" of philosophy as superfluous, so that we can get on with business."
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