Language, Truth and Logic

Why read it

• You will stop expecting philosophy to build grand systems and start treating it as the work of making clear what our words and claims mean
• You will gain a test for whether a factual claim means anything: ask what experience could ever count for or against it
• You will weigh Ayer's claim that philosophy gives no real ground for rival schools or parties

Who it is for

• A philosophy student meeting logical positivism for the first time
• Someone who wonders what philosophers actually do
• A reader who wants a sharp test for meaningful claims

What the summary covers

1. Preface: what can a proposition say?1 min
2. The elimination of metaphysics2 min
3. The function of philosophy2 min
4. The nature of analysis2 min
5. The a priori2 min
6. Truth and probability2 min
7. Ethics, aesthetics and theology2 min
8. The self and a common world2 min
9. Three outstanding disputes3 min
10. 1946 appendix: revisions4 min

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