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

    08.08.2011

    Issue

    Vol. 8 No. 2 (2011)

    Section

    Philosophy

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    © Journal of Human Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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    How to Cite

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