A. J. Ayer's influential introduction to logical empiricism arguing for the verificationist criterion of meaning and emotivism about ethics.
The verification principle: a proposition is meaningful only if it is either analytically true or empirically verifiable; metaphysics, theology, and traditional epistemology are cognitively meaningless. Moral statements express emotional attitudes.
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