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...

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...

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

Carnap's formulations, a universal law's degree of confirmation was zero. In Language, Truth and Logic, published that year, A. J. Ayer distinguished between...

" 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...

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...

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...

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually...

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