Ayer - The Elimination of Metaphysics

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What is Ayer seeking to do?

Disprove metaphysics with verifiability

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What does Ayer imply that Metaphysics is?

Poetry - no value other than mysticism

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What shape is the argument?

Cyclical

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Why is the argument this shape?

Verifiability cannot be verified by its own criterion

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What specific example of this is there?

Empirically verifiable as a concept is not verifiable

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Does Ayer’s argument stand up?

No - by his own definition the argument is meaningless