A. J. Ayer believed that there were only two kinds of meaningful statements:
A) Relations of ideas and statements of fact
B) Relations of ideas and tautologies
C) Empirical hypotheses and statements of fact
D) Relations of fact and statements of ideas

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According to Ayer's Logical Positivism, meaningful statements are either analytic (relations of ideas) or synthetic (statements of fact). Tautologies are considered to be a subcategory of analytic statements. Therefore, A) is the best choice as it captures Ayer's view on the different types of meaningful statements.

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