Church, Oxford. During the Second World War Ayer was a Special Operations Executive and MI6 agent. Ayer was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind...

vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson. Emotivism can be considered a form of...

according to Ayer) from Friedrich Waismann's Logik, Sprache, Philosophie. According to Ayer, analytic statements are tautologies. A tautology is a statement...

" Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (29 October 1910, London – 27 June 1989, London), better known as A. J. Ayer or "Freddie" to friends, was a British analytic philosopher...

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the internal structure of experience instead. Logical positivists, like A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), said that all knowledge is either empirical or analytic....

A New Conception of Science, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Mill, J.S., "An Examination of Sir William Rowan Hamilton's Philosophy", in A.J. Ayer and...

Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. Description is one of four...

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 12 Apr 2001. Ayer, A.J. (1936). Language, Truth, and Logic (PDF). pp. 6–7. "Ayer on the criterion of verifiability" (PDF)...

The second edition of A. J. Ayer's book arrived in 1946, and discerned strong versus weak forms of verification. Ayer concluded, "A proposition is said...

partitioned and incorporated as the town of Ayer in 1871. The town was named Ayer in honor of Dr. James Cook Ayer, a prominent resident of Lowell, Massachusetts...

chiefly associated with J. L. Austin (and, according to Grayling, G. E. Moore, C. D. Broad, Bertrand Russell and A. J. Ayer) were Wittgensteinians. Grayling...

century by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, C. D. Broad, H. H. Price, A. J. Ayer, and G. E. Moore. Sense data are taken to be mind-dependent objects whose...

4 million in 2023). In 1980, a memorial to Russell was commissioned by a committee including the philosopher A. J. Ayer. It consists of a bust of Russell in Red...

the noncognitivist view that the existence of a deity is meaningless or empirically untestable. A. J. Ayer, Theodore Drange, and other philosophers see...

including The Case for Idealism (1982) and A World for Us: The Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism (2008). His A. J. Ayer (1985) was described by Anthony Quinton...

philosophy of mind, epistemology, feminist theory, and philosophy of language A. J. Ayer (1910–1989): British philosopher and an advocate of logical positivism...

YouTube BBC Radio 4 programme on Wittgenstein, broadcast 13 December 2011 "A. J. Ayer's Critique of Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument" Wittgenstein, BBC...

March 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2023. Gardiner, J. M. (2001). "Episodic Memory and Autonoetic Consciousness: A First-person Approach". Philosophical Transactions...

S2CID 170786646. reprinted in Ayer, A. J., (1990) The Meaning of Life and Other Essays, the same being reviewed (with attention given to the Ayer/Copleston debate)...

influenced by the emotivism of A. J. Ayer and Charles L. Stevenson, the ordinary language philosophy of J. L. Austin, a certain reading of the later philosophy...

analysis (Foley 1996). A.C. Ewing distinguished between two forms of philosophical analysis. The first is "what the persons who make a certain statement usually...

a theory of linguistic reference and meaning articulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Wittgenstein suggested that a meaningful...

epistemic evaluation, Cornell University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8014-4291-5 Robert J. Fogelin, Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification, Oxford University...

R.; Horsley, Simon A.H. (29 March 2022). "Toppling the Pyramids: Physics Without Physical State Monism". In Austin, Christopher J.; Marmodoro, Anna; Roselli...

Ayer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), British philosopher Caleb Ayer (1813–1883), American politician Claire...

According to A. J. Ayer, metaphysicians make statements which claim to have "knowledge of a reality which [transcends] the phenomenal world". Ayer, a member...

Library. Retrieved 2007-APR-07. Ayer, A. J. (1946). Language, Truth and Logic. Dover. pp. 115–116. In a footnote, Ayer attributes this view to "Professor...

Merleau-Ponty), sexual difference (Luce Irigaray), and space (Peter Sloterdijk). A. J. Ayer objected that Heidegger proposed vast, overarching theories regarding...

Vienna, a position Schlick would later hold — and the Cambridge philosopher Bertrand Russell. The idea of some logical positivists, such as A.J. Ayer and...