语言、真理与逻辑

简介

Ayer wrote the book after spending several months with the Vienna Circle in 1933; it appeared in January 1936, when he was twenty-five. In under two hundred pages it presents the doctrines of logical positivism for English readers. Its criterion of meaning is the verification principle: a statement is meaningful only if it is analytic or empirically verifiable at least in principle. Ayer applies this to metaphysics, theology, the self and the problem of other minds, and treats the propositions of logic and mathematics as tautologies. In the introduction to the second edition (1946) he conceded several difficulties with the principle, which critics had shown could not easily be formulated without either excluding science or admitting metaphysics.

联系

承接了

• 人类理解研究1748 · 大卫·休谟
• 逻辑哲学论1921 · 路德维希·维特根斯坦
• 哲学的转变1930 · 莫里茨·石里克

被批评于

• 道德语言1952 · R. M. 黑尔
• 经验论与心灵哲学1956 · 威尔弗里德·塞拉斯
• 感觉与可感物（Sense and Sensibilia）1962 · J. L. 奥斯汀