Alfred Jules Ayer

Alfred Jules Ayer was a British philosopher known for promoting logical positivism, which emphasizes that meaningful statements must be either empirically verifiable or logically necessary. He argued that many traditional philosophical questions, like those about existence or morality, are nonsensical because they cannot be tested or proven. Ayer’s ideas helped shape modern analytical philosophy by focusing on clarity, language, and scientific methods. His influential work, *Language, Truth, and Logic*, remains a key text in understanding how philosophy can be grounded in what can be observed and tested.