![]() ![]() Nevertheless, this philosophical approach has broadened my horizon. ![]() ![]() But I do not doubt that this kind of philosophy delivers quite accurate fruits, although with a quite limited perspective. This is, to my opinion, especially clear when the author explains his opinion to ethics: Scientificial is only the descriptive ethics, normative ethics can't be verified as universally valid, it's mere emotive. That is quite entertaining and facetious, although I doubt if this narrow-guage philosophy will do full justice to the complexity of the world, of life and of human being. First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings. God is transcendent to the world? Then he is empirically not verifiable, nonsense! Ayers criticism on idealism or monism or rationalism: He is not in need of many lines of text to prove their core propositions as nonsenical, to his mind. Theologians are given a short shrift, too. What cannot be empirically verified aside from analytic propositions (which are but mere tautologies) can't be said as being true. ![]() Substances, ideas, terms with no link to factuals? Flim-flam. LANGUAGE, TRUTH AND LOGIC is the classic work of philosophy by Alfred Jules Ayer published in 1936 when Ayer was 26 (though it was in fact completed by age 25). The book serves the reader with what he is expecting from a real classical of logical positivism. ![]()
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