Language, Truth and Logic

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Penguin Books Limited, Apr 26, 2001 - Philosophy - 224 pages
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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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Sir Alfred Ayer caused a furore with the publication of his LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC in 1936, when he was only 24. From 1959 until 1978 he was Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He died in 1989. Ben Rogers is the author of A. J.AYER: A LIFE (Chatto & Windus 1999, Vintage 2000).

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TitleLanguage, Truth and Logic
Penguin Modern Classics
AuthorA.J. Ayer
ContributorBen Rogers
Editionreprint
PublisherPenguin Books Limited, 2001
ISBN0141911808, 9780141911809
Length224 pages
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Philosophy / Epistemology
Philosophy / Language
Philosophy / Logic
Philosophy / Movements / Analytic
  
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