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Ideas for 'works', 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits' and 'Introduction to 'Language Truth and Logic''

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

5164	A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer]

5165	Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer]

5166	The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

5162	Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths

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The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

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If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell]