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dc.contributor.authorOBIEFUNA, LEONARD-
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-16T13:32:40Z-
dc.date.available2022-11-16T13:32:40Z-
dc.date.issued2009-12-
dc.identifier.otherNAU/PG/2008086026F-
dc.identifier.urihttp://95.179.195.156:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/29-
dc.descriptionA THESIS PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS, NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE (MA) IN PHILOSOPHYen_US
dc.description.abstractA.J Ayer a logical positivist and indeed at all his fellow logical positivists were moved by the achievements and clarities in science and as it were, they moved to bring these achievements and clarities in science into philosophy. They believed that there are ambiguities and confusion in philosophical languages and that such ambiguities and confusions would be a thing of the past in philosophy when they are all jettisoned. It was their view also that those ambiguities in philosophy gave rise to metaphysics. Metaphysics for these positivists was to be expunged because it contained no knowledge as it purports to give. They (positivists) termed its knowledge pseudo-knowledge. In this work therefore, I wish to show that no matter the amount of attack directed to metaphysics by Ayer and his co-positivists, metaphysics will never be eliminated because man must go beyond the physical to explain realities like: life, God, man, world and man’s place in it, justice etc. for the sake of this work, I shall employ analytical method in order to do justice to this work.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectMetaphysicsen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophical Languagesen_US
dc.subjectPositivismen_US
dc.subjectPseudo-knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectA.J Ayeren_US
dc.titleA.J.AYER AND THE ELIMINATION OF METAPHYSICSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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