An amusing Hilary Spurling essay compares this man to Mike Tyson, whom he once stopped from harassing Naomi Campbell at a party.
This man argued that if one believes a sign s is a reference to an object O, "the causal flummery is otiose" and that he could "easily conceive of it as a possibility" that Caesar was a robot in his "Replies", collected in Perception and Identity.  This man's Metaphysics and Common Sense continued the thread of his article ""Has Austin Refuted the Sense-Data Theory?", which was a response to critiques of an earlier work. An amusing Hilary Spurling essay compares this man to Mike Tyson, whom he once stopped from harassing Naomi Campbell at a party. This man's most famous work considers the equivalence of two sentences about the author of Waverley being Scotch in its section on "The Nature of Philosophical Analysis", as well as claiming that "the ethical word is purely emotive." That work opens with a section on "The Elimination of Metaphysics" and advocates the verification principle. For 10 points, name this philosopher, the author of Language, Truth, and Logic.
This man argued that if one believes a sign s is a reference to an object O, "the causal flummery is otiose" and that he could "easily conceive of it as a possibility" that Caesar was a robot in his "Replies", collected in Perception and Identity.  
{Alfred} Jules {Ayer}