Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
A J Ayer quote No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A J Ayer quote Even logical positivists are capable of love.
A J Ayer quote The propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. [Ayer was a logical positivist]
A J Ayer quote A point which is not sufficiently brought out by Russell, if indeed it is recognized by him at all, is that every logical proposition is valid in its own right.
A J Ayer quote Biography
English philosopher 1910-89
