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Language, Truth and Logic is a 1936 book about meaning by the philosopher Alfred Jules Ayer, in which the author defines, explains, and argues for the verification principle of logical positivism, sometimes referred to as the criterion of significance or criterion of meaning.
- Alfred Jules Ayer
- 1936
Oct 29, 2007 · Alfred Ayer - Language, Truth and Logic. Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth and probability, critique ...
Language, Truth, and Logic, work by the British philosopher A.J. Ayer, published in 1936, that became a popular manifesto of logical positivism, a philosophical movement that originated in the 1920s in discussions among members of the Vienna Circle, a group of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians that met regularly in Vienna to ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 30, 2019 · The elimination of metaphysics -- The function of philosophy -- The nature of philosophical analysis -- The a priori -- Truth and probability -- Critique of ethics and theology -- The self and the common world -- Solutions of outstanding philosophical disputes.
May 7, 2005 · A.J. Ayer (1910–1989) was only 24 when he wrote the book that made his philosophical name, Language, Truth, and Logic (hereafter LTL), published in 1936. In it he put forward what were understood to be the major theses of logical positivism, and so established himself as the leading English representative of the movement, Viennese in origin.
- Graham Macdonald, Nakul Krishna
- 2005
It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for...
to have explained the nature of truth. To test whether a sentence expresses a genuine empirical hypothesis. I adopt what may be called a modified verification principle. For I require of an empirical hypothesis, not indeed that it should be conclusively verifiable, but that some possible sense-experience should be relevant to the determi-
