- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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Condition: Used
US$ 2,748.94
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First edition, first printing. 8vo. 254 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (long pencilled notation clumsily erased from half title, small 'Times Book Club' label to rear pastedown, contents slightly browned but otherwise generally unmarked; jacket rather faded and worn at extremities with strip of loss at head of spine panel and along the top edge of front panel, a very good copy overall). London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. Ayer's first and most famous book, complete with the rare dust jacket, vital for bringing the ideas of the Vienna Circle to the English-speaking world, 'written at the age at which (as he liked to recall) David Hume had written his Treatise of Human Nature (1739). It was his version of Viennese logical positivism, though he also saw it as a recasting of the traditional theses of British empiricism into linguistic terms. The book is full of passionate iconoclasm, expressed in a fine cadenced prose. Its central thesis is the verification principle, which divided all statements into the verifiable or the unverifiable. Verifiable statements were either, like everyday beliefs or science, reducible to observation statements, or, like mathematics or logic, transformable by means of definitions into tautologies, and only they were meaningful. Unverifiable statements (metaphysics, ethics, religion) were literally nonsense' (ODNB).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Language, Truth and Logic.
- Author
- AYER (Alfred J.)
- Publication year
- 1936
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
London, United Kingdom
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Established in 1853, Maggs Brothers is one of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers still operating today. We sell books worldwide through the internet as well as from our regularly published catalogues, and we are delighted to welcome customers to our two premises in Bloomsbury and Mayfair.
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Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA
Maggs Bros. Ltd., 48 Bedford Square
London, United Kingdom WC1B 3DR
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