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Ayer says "All metaphysical assertions are nonsensical." By "metaphysical assertion," he means
{ 1 } - "statement about being qua being."
{ 2 } - "statement that is neither empirically verifiable (testible by sense experience) nor analytic (true by definition)."
{ 3 } - "statement that analyzes the basic concepts we use to describe the world."
{ 4 } - "statement that is very subtle or requires complex reasoning."
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Ayer says "All metaphysical assertions are nonsensical." By "metaphysical assertion," he means
{ 1 } - "statement about being qua being."
{ 2 } - "statement that is neither empirically verifiable (testible by sense experience) nor analytic (true by definition)."
{ 3 } - "statement that analyzes the basic concepts we use to describe the world."
{ 4 } - "statement that is very subtle or requires complex reasoning."
Thomists define metaphysics this way. Ayer regards their metaphysics as nonsensical, but he defines "metaphysics" differently.
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Ayer says "All metaphysical assertions are nonsensical." By "metaphysical assertion," he means
{ 1 } - "statement about being qua being."
{ 2 } - "statement that is neither empirically verifiable (testible by sense experience) nor analytic (true by definition)."
{ 3 } - "statement that analyzes the basic concepts we use to describe the world."
{ 4 } - "statement that is very subtle or requires complex reasoning."
According to Ayer, any statement that is neither empirically verifiable nor analytic is cognitively meaningless -- it makes no claim that could be either true or false.
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Ayer says "All metaphysical assertions are nonsensical." By "metaphysical assertion," he means
{ 1 } - "statement about being qua being."
{ 2 } - "statement that is neither empirically verifiable (testible by sense experience) nor analytic (true by definition)."
{ 3 } - "statement that analyzes the basic concepts we use to describe the world."
{ 4 } - "statement that is very subtle or requires complex reasoning."
Ayer sees true philosophy as doing just this. Philosophy is a type of linguistic analysis.
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Ayer says "All metaphysical assertions are nonsensical." By "metaphysical assertion," he means
{ 1 } - "statement about being qua being."
{ 2 } - "statement that is neither empirically verifiable (testible by sense experience) nor analytic (true by definition)."
{ 3 } - "statement that analyzes the basic concepts we use to describe the world."
{ 4 } - "statement that is very subtle or requires complex reasoning."
Ayer wasn't against this.
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