A.J Ayer

Cards (4)

  • What was he known as?
    A logical positivist.
  • What did he say?
    Talk of God must be nonsensical since the "notion of a person whose essential attributes is not an intelligible notion at all." Just because a word exists, does not mean there is a correspondence in reality.
  • What is a strong version?
    When there is no doubt that a statement is true- verifiable using sense experience
  • What is a weak version?
    There are some observations relevant to proving an assertion true/false. Verifiable in principle is sufficient to be able to know how to verify it.