Full Idea
Tautologies and empirical hypotheses form the entire class of significant propositions.
Gist of Idea
Tautologies and empirical hypotheses form the entire class of significant propositions
Source
A.J. Ayer (Language,Truth and Logic [1936], Ch.1)
Book Reference
Ayer,A.J.: 'Language, Truth and Logic' [Penguin 1974], p.56
A Reaction
This appears to be false. Possibly the problem is that Ayer takes the whole proposition to be the unit of meaning, but actually meaninfulness only requires that we build up a claim about a possible world from semantic units. Blue bees live on square suns.