Individual sentences gain their meaning by some specification of the actual steps we take for determining their truth or falsity. As expressed by Ayer, sentences (statements, propositions) are meaningful if they can be assessed either by an appeal directly (or indirectly) to some foundational form of sense-experience or by an appeal to the meaning of the words and the grammatical structure that constitute them. In the former case, sentences are said to be synthetically true or false; in the latter, analytically true or false. If the sentences under examination fail to meet the verifiability test, they are labelled meaningless. Such sentences are said to be neither true nor false.
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Individual sentences gain their meaning by some specification of the actual steps we take for determining their truth or falsity. As expressed by Ayer, sentences (statements, propositions) are meaningful if they can be assessed either by an appeal directly (or indirectly) to some foundational form of sense-experience or by an appeal to the meaning of the words and the grammatical structure that constitute them. In the former case, sentences are said to be synthetically true or false; in the latter, analytically true or false. If the sentences under examination fail to meet the verifiability test, they are labelled meaningless. Such sentences are said to be neither true nor false.
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I'm Dr. Wahoo Capybara and I approve this message - Capybara 2008
I'm Dr. Wahoo Capybara and I approve this message - Capybara 2008
