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Alfred Jules Ayer quotes and philosophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alfred Jules Ayer quotes, quotations, aphorisms, ideas and thoughts about his philosophy explained in a very squashed article. <\/span><\/p>\n

The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

No moral system can rest solely on authority.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

The truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

But it is not sensible to cry for what is logically impossible.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

The propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character \u2013 that is, they do not describe the behavior of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability. <\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. <\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

We reject metaphysics and knowledge of a transcendent reality.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Kant accused metaphysicians of ignoring the limits of understanding, we accuse them of disobeying the rules of significant language.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

For a statement of fact to be genuine it must be possible to verify it through experience.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy is wholly critical, an activity of linguistic analysis.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy is not concerned with meaning, but with definitions in use.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

As empiricists, we deny that matters of fact can be known to be certainly valid.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Analytic propositions (tautologies), such as logic and mathematics, are true and can give us new knowledge by bringing to light our linguistic usages.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

The words ‘true’ and ‘false’ are simply signs of negation or assertion.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

The ‘problem of truth’ is the problem of how propositions are validated.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Observation can discredit not just a hypothesis, but a whole system of hypotheses.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

But the ‘facts of experience’ can never compel one to abandon a hypothesis.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Assertions of value are not scientific but ‘emotive’, thus neither true not false. They express feelings or commands.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

On this view it is impossible to dispute questions of value, only questions of fact.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethics and aesthetics are to be comprehended in the social sciences.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

That a transcendent god or an immortal soul exist are metaphysical assertions of no literal significance.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

This view is, in fact, supported by theists.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

A sense-experience cannot belong to the sense-history of more than one self.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

The ego is fictitious.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

We know of other minds in the same way we know of our own, by inference from the body.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

What exists need not necessarily be thought of.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy is the logic of science.<\/span>
\nAlfred Jules Ayer<\/span><\/p>\n

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