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The Verificationist Donald Antrim
Publisher: Picador

Mar 27, 2001 - With The Verificationist, Donald Antrim, acclaimed author of The Hundred Brothers, confirms his place as one of America's strangest and fiercely intelligent young writers. The criterion which we used to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability. Evidence that there is a zombie cannot be found in any possible world. Ayer, perhaps the paradigmatic logical positivist, summed the verificationist position up succinctly. Oct 12, 2010 - Abstract: Knowability is analyzed in a logical framework with the alethic modality [] and the epistemic modality K. So, for example, propositions in the future tense are apparently not meaningful. Apr 22, 2007 - Verificationism and the Zombie II There are some points that need clarification, so let's review: 1. Ayer was a young man at the time when Language, Truth and Logic was published and it is very much a young man's book. May 28, 2012 - A.J Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic - The Verification Principle. Jan 19, 2012 - (1) Verificationism- We cannot coherently think of reality as unthought (from the British empiricists originally, though Berkeley actually argued for it). Therefore, such evidence is a logical impossibility. Apr 14, 2011 - Verificationism is the position that a proposition must be able to be determined to be true or false in order to be meaningful.