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    The sentence 'The Absolute is lazy' is meaningful according to the verification criterion of meaning

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    • 1.Ayer's weak verification principle holds that S is meaningful if some observation statement O is deducible from S conjoined with other premises.
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    • 2.The inference from 'The Absolute is lazy' plus the conditional to 'This is white' satisfies exactly this conjunctive deducibility condition.
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    • 3.Church's objection targets the formulation of the criterion, not the verdict it yields for this specific sentence under Ayer's own stated rules.
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    • 1.Carnap's tolerance principle permits multiple linguistic frameworks, and within a framework containing causal-conditional bridge laws, metaphysical terms can bear empirical consequences.
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    • 2.If 'The Absolute is lazy' is embedded in a framework with lawlike conditionals linking it to observables, it acquires indirect empirical content via Carnap's requirement of empirical significance for theoretical terms.
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    • 1.From 'The Absolute is lazy' together with 'If the Absolute is lazy, then this is white', it follows that 'This is white'
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    • 2.'This is white' does not follow from the conditional premise 'If the Absolute is lazy, then this is white' alone
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    • 3.Under the verification criterion, a sentence is meaningful if it contributes to entailing an observable conclusion that cannot be derived without it
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    But this is obviously unacceptable and (as with its predecessor) it is properties of logical entailment that cause the problem. To borrow Ayer’s own example (given in the second edition of his 1936 [1952]), from “The Absolute is lazy” together with “If the Absolute is lazy, then this is white”, it follows that “This is white”, and this does not follow from the conditional premise alone. Hence, contrary to every bone in the logical empiricist’s body, “The Absolute is lazy” is meaningful. The argu
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