biography
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Ayer, Sir A(lfred) J(ules)
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pronunciation:
[air]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1910–89)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he was a pupil of Gilbert Ryle. He became professor at University College London, then at Oxford (1947–59). His first and best book was Language, Truth and Logic (1936), a concise and forceful account of the antimetaphysical doctrines of the Vienna Circle of philosophers he had become acquainted with in the 1930s. His later publications include The Problem of Knowledge (1956) and The Central Questions of Philosophy (1972). He was knighted in 1970. |
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