![]() ![]() Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Language, Truth, and Logic. ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Language, Truth, and Logic - Ebook written by Alfred Jules Ayer. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis. His Language, Truth and Logic, first published in 1936 presents a modified version of logical positivism which he called logical empiricism. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience - those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. ![]() ![]() A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. 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. I should like to have written it myself." - Bertrand Russellįirst published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. ![]()
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