Monday, January 3, 2011

Sir A.J. Ayer on Linguistics, Definitions, and Philosophy

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"The propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions."

-Sir A.J. Ayer

Sir A.J. Ayer on logical positivism: 

Primary Source: Language, Truth and Logic by Sir A.J. Ayer

Secondary Source: The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer, Volume 21 (Library of Living Philosophers) by Lewis Edwin Hahn

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