Sep 5, 2008
Ayer was Wykeham professor of logic at Oxford, where he completed his education in 1932. Through his early association with the Austrian group of philosophers known as the Vienna Circle, he became a logical positivist. In 1936, he published his best-known book Language, Truth and Logic, one of the most influential philosophical essays of the twentieth century. In it, Ayer defended the logical positivist doctrine known as the verification principle, which states that the meaning of any statement is its method of verification. According to this view, which...
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