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“ ”The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful
About A.J. Ayer
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), more often referred to as A. J. Ayer or Freddie Ayer, was a British humanist philosopher, who was one of the leading proponents of logical positivism.
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...His argument, as set out in The Problems of Philosophy, was based on the empirical fact that we are not only aware of things but are also, very frequently, aware of being aware of them.
...the fact that a conclusion does not follow from its putative premise is not sufficient to show that it is false.
No morality can be founded on authority, even if that authority were divine