This thinker described "what he saw when he was dead" in "The Undiscovered Country," and attempts to eviscerate Wittgenstein's private language argument in The Concept of a Person and Other Essays.
This thinker described "what he saw when he was dead" in "The Undiscovered Country," and attempts to eviscerate Wittgenstein's private language argument in The Concept of a Person and Other Essays. Like Bertrand Russell, this thinker engaged the Jesuit priest Frederick Copelston in a series of BBC debates on the nature of religious language. In his magnum opus he obviates religious statements as meaningless since they are neither tautologies nor can they be empirically verified, which leads to him to a meta-ethical principle known as emotivism. For 10 points, name this British logical positivist philosopher, author of such works as The Problem of Knowledge and Language, Truth and Logic.
This thinker described "what he saw when he was dead" in "The Undiscovered Country," and attempts to eviscerate Wittgenstein's private language argument in The Concept of a Person and Other Essays.
A. {J. Ayer}