Ayer's critique of metaphysics: Metaphysics as dead end of philosophy

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  • İlyas Altuner İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri

Keywords:

Metaphysics, verifiability, proposition, fact, experience

Abstract

Metaphysics, which is mentioned as the highest science by Aristotle, has lost its property of the queen of sciences more and more, afterwards it has been denied wherefore philosophy had been reduced to language analysis by philosophers in the Vienna Circle. Ayer has rejected metaphysics and he has argued that it had to be eliminated from philosophy because it was not be able to adapt to verifiability principle. Ayer’s purpose of verifiability is that to be proved something by experiment and observation. This, with Wittgensteinian statement, is to say drawing the picture of meaning or fact.

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Author Biography

İlyas Altuner, İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri

B.A. - Selçuk University Faculty of Divinity, Department of Philosphy and Religious Sciences (Philosophy of Religion)

M.A. - Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosphy and Religious Sciences (Philosophy and Logic)

Ph.D. - İstanbul University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Philosphy and Religious Sciences (History of Philosophy)

Lecturer - Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy (Systematic Philosophy and Logic)

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Published

2011-08-08

How to Cite

Altuner, İlyas. (2011). Ayer’s critique of metaphysics: Metaphysics as dead end of philosophy. Journal of Human Sciences, 8(2), 579–588. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/1723

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2011)

Section

Philosophy

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Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
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