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Quote by Nikolai Berdyaev

“Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.”

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Russian philosopher born on March 18, 1874, and died on March 23, 1948. Nikolai Berdyaev is known for his contributions to religious philosophy, existentialism, and liberalism. more

“To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.”

Way Should May Certain Numbers Records Position Mark Genuine Observation Propositions Finite Another Way Premises Factual Conjunctions Finite Number

Author:A.J. Ayer

“We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.”

Reality Limits Statements Significance Literal Transcending

Author:A.J. Ayer

“It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.”

Ethics Branches Department Sociology

Author:A.J. Ayer

“But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.”

Ifs May Said Philosophy Empty Blind

Author:A.J. Ayer

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