Language, truth and logic
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Experience; Knowledge, Theory of; Languages -- Philosophy
First sentence: The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
Description: Mr. Ayer sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. 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. 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.
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