Language Truth and Logic Author:A. J. Ayer Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth and probability, critique of ethics and theology, self and the comm... more »on world, more. "A delightful book...I should like to have written it myself."—Bertrand Russell.« less