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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

— A. J. Ayer The Meaning of Life and Other Essays (1990)

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The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability.

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No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else.

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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

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