Part 3, Emotivism.

Right, so we're looking at A.J. A.A.

For this part, who is the author of Language, Truth and Logic from 1936. I'll ask my own

question and I'll answer it. Who was A.J. A.J. A. Well, Sir Alfred Jules Fredier lived between

1910 and 1989. He was educated at Eton College at Oxford University, after which he studied

the philosophy of logical positivism

at the University of Vienna, which will go into detail within a moment. From 1933 to

1940, he lectured on philosophy at Christchurch, Oxford, and he was knighted in 1970, dying in

1988. So for today, we're concerned with Aer's language, truth and logic, like I said.

Here he's going to present what we'll come to discuss as the verification principle, and he uses

this as a basis for his meta-ethical stance. Lusely stated, unless something can be verified,

then it's meaningless. So when I say God exists,

I can't verify that, so it's nonsense. And we're going to unpack these ideas here.

The logical positivists, as we mentioned before in previous episodes, it finds its roots in the

Vienna Circle. This is the view associated with them. So in the 1920s, we see a big group of philosophers,

analytic philosophers, trying to say what's meaningful and meaningless in language. So if you've

listened to the Wittgenstein episode, his early work was heavily influenced by these.

So the logical positivists are coming, going back to Hume from the first episode of Matter

Ethics are approaching their view of knowledge purely from a very radical, like, we know things

either through analytic truth propositions or we know them through synthetic truth propositions.

Anything that does not match that description is entirely nonsense.

So when you have a, well, what some people would say as a proposition, but Ayo would say is absolutely not one,

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