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Language, truth, and logic.
A. J. Ayer, A. J. Ayer
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An edition of Language, truth and logic (1936)

Language, truth, and logic.

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Metaphysical justification by can be banished by recognizing only empirical justifications, but empiricism must deal with the validity of inductive reasoning, a problem identified by Hume. Probabilities help, but require adjusting the meaning of various sentences, and the meaning of truth.

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Dover Publications
Language
English
Pages
160

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Experience, Language and languages, Languages, Logic, Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge, Expérience, Langage et langues, Wetenschappelijke technieken, Connaissance, Théorie de la, Filosofie, Philosophie, Philosophie du langage, The orie de la Connaissance, Expe rience, Sprache, Sprachphilosophie, Logik, Empiricism, Language and logic, Knowledge, theory of, Language and languages, philosophy

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1952, Dover Publications
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First Sentence

"The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful."

Table of Contents

Introduction
Page 5
Preface
Page 31
I. The Elimination of Metaphysics
Page 33
II. The Function of Philosophy
Page 46
III. The Nature of Philosophical Analysis
Page 59
IV. The A Priori
Page 71
V. Truth and Probability
Page 87
VI. Critique of Ethics and Theology
Page 102
VII. The Self and the Common World
Page 120
VIII. Solutions of Outstanding Philosophical Disputes
Page 133
Index
Page 155

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Dewey Decimal Class
101
Library of Congress
B53 .A9 1952

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Pagination
160 p.
Number of pages
160

ID Numbers

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OL6106731M
LCCN
52000860
Library Thing
25171

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