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May 7, 2005 · A.J. Ayer (1910–1989) was only 24 when he wrote the book that made his philosophical name, Language, Truth, and Logic (hereafter LTL), published in 1936.In it he put forward what were understood to be the major theses of Logical Positivism, and so established himself as that movement's leading English representative.
After graduating from the University of Oxford (1932) and securing a fellowship at Oxford’s college of Christ Church, Ayer traveled to Vienna, where he studied under Moritz Schlick, the founder and leader of the Vienna Circle, and attended meetings of the group. Although Ayer’s knowledge of German was limited, he understood enough of it to grasp the doctrine that the group was developing.
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In 1946, Ayer wrote an extensive introduction for the second edition of Language, Truth, and Logic in which he defended the main doctrines of the book. In the ten years following the publication ...
From 1946 to 1459 he was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and logic in the University of London. He was Wykeham Professor of Logic in the University of Oxford, and was a Fellow of New College, Ox-ford, from 1959 until 1978. From 1978 to 1983 he was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. In addition he is a Fellow of the British Academy ...
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Jan 8, 2010 · When, in 1979, A. J. Ayer was asked for an evaluation of his youthful Language, Truth and Logic (LTL), he replied: ‘I suppose the most important of the defects was that nearly all of it was false’. Like many of the claims in the book itself, this verdict is open to question.
Oct 29, 2007 · I met Sir Alfred Ayer years ago when I was a graduate student at UBC in Vancouver, Canada. I was invited to a dinner with him along with a number of other grad students. I rushed through the book in order to be conversant at the dinner. I must admit the first time through the book I didn't understand a lot of what he wrote.
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Oct 24, 2020 · I focus on the emergence of these views in England, mainly in Cambridge, during the period, roughly, 1930–1940. In 1936, Ayer’s LTL was controversial—it was a direct and provocative attack on age-old philosophical tradition. But it was also during the 1930s that the second movement appeared, and this also attacked some of the deepest ...
