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Ayer's Attack on Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

D. M. MacKinnon
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Extract

In an article contributed to Mind in 1934, the young A. J. Ayer declared war on metaphysics, claiming that his destruction of the metaphysicians' arguments rested on the establishment of the sheerly non-sensical character of their statements. Their errors were syntactical; the combination of symbols in the sentences with which they expressed their propositions violated fundamental principles of significance.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 30 , September 1991 , pp. 49 - 61
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1991

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