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The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

Alfred Jules Ayer

The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future. There are only two ways of approaching this problem on the assumption that it is a genuine problem, and it is easy to see that neither of them can lead to its solution.

Alfred Jules Ayer

Alfred Jules Ayer

Alfred Jules Ayer

Born: October 29, 1910

Died: June 27, 1989 (aged 78)

Bio: Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic and The Problem of Knowledge.

Known for:

Language, Truth, and Logic
The problem of knowledge (1956)
Central questions of philosophy (1973)
The foundations of empirical knowledge (1940)
Probability and Evidence (1972)

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