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Language, Truth and Logic

By A. J. Ayer

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Year
2008
ISBN
0141186046, 9780141186047
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1964420 bytes)
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Pages
224\175
Time added
2013-04-14 19:09:33

Description

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 finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foundations of Anglo-American philosophy and made its author notorious. It became a classic text, cleared away the cobwebs in philosophical thinking, and has been enormously influential.

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