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...
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Emotivism (section A. J. Ayer)
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...
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according to Ayer) from Friedrich Waismann's Logik, Sprache, Philosophie. According to Ayer, analytic statements are tautologies. A tautology is a statement...
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British philosophy (section A. J. Ayer)
" 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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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...
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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...
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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)...
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Epistemology (category Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback via Module:Annotated link)
the internal structure of experience instead. Logical positivists, like A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), said that all knowledge is either empirical or analytic....
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Bertrand Russell (redirect from Russell: J. Bertrand Russell Stud.)
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...
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Description (section As a fiction-writing mode)
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...
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