Ayer, Metaphysics, and Burden of Positivism: A Discourse in Existential Metaphysics

ABSTRACT
The thesis of this paper as it attends to deflate the impression and supposition of
Ayer is that metaphysics as a discipline has an enduring value to man basically
and also to philosophy as a discipline. This stems from the fact that man practices
metaphysics just as he breathes, without thinking about it. Man has often been
defined as a metaphysical animal. Man, from this stand point, is of his very
essence metaphysical,; which means that there is in him something incapable of
expression in terms simply of nature or physics; something which always
radically transcends nature and which is to be described as beyond the
physical/transcendental.