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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. James Russell Lowell		Tuesday Oct 13, 2026
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In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.

Alfred Jules Ayer

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	Alfred Jules Ayer
	Language Truth and Logic, Ayer, Ch.4, p.108.

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A point which is not sufficiently brought out by Russell, if indeed it is recognized by him at all, is that every logical proposition is valid in its own right. Its validity does not depend upon its being incorporated in a system, and deduced from certain

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.