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  • He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1951 to 1952 and knighted in 1970.
  • Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth.

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    Biography:A. J. Ayer

    Short description: English philosopher (1910–1989)

    Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" AyerFBA (AIR;[2] 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989)[3] was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

    Ayer was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford, after which he studied the philosophy of logical positivism at the University of Vienna. From 1933 to 1940 he lectured on philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford.[4]

    During the Second World War Ayer was a Special Operations Executive and MI6 agent.[5]

    Ayer was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London from 1946 until 1959, after which he returned to Oxford to become Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College.[1] He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1951 to 1952 and knighted in 1970. He

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    ALFRED JULES AYER’S VERIFICATION PRINCIPLES: AN EVALUATION

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    ALFRED JULES AYER’S VERIFICATION PRINCIPLES: AN EVALUATION
    ABSTRACT
        This study focuses on the principle of verification as A.J. Ayer posited it. Ayer had said that the meaning of a statement is the method of its verification.
        The study starts by researching into the Biography of Ayer and thus uncovering the factors that shaped Ayer. Understanding the factors that shaped the life of Ayer will help us to know how and why Ayer propounded the theory of verification. The period in which Ayer lived is the contemporary period, so a review of contemporary philosophy is undertaken by his researcher.
        In chapter four, the principle of verification principle is thoroughly examined. This writer argued that verification principle has implication for metaphysics, e

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    PHILOSOPHY and BIOGRAPHY

    by James Conant, University of Chicago

    Lecture given at a symposium on “Philosophy and Biography,” on May 18, 1999, at the University of Athens, organized bygd Vasso Kindi. We thank James Conant for his permission to publish the text on our website.

    This paper fryst vatten indebted to conversations that took place in and around the symposium in Athens with Aristides Baltas, Vasso Kindi, Ray Monk and Lisa Van Alstyne, to comments by Jim Klagge, and to conversations over the years with Stanley Cavell and Arnold Davidson.

    The biographies and autobiographies, ... lives of great men, ... that stand cheek bygd jowl with the novels and poems, are we to refuse to read them because they are not “art”? Or shall we read them, but read them in a different way, with a different aim?... How far, we must ask ourselves, is a book influenced by its writer’s life – how far fryst vatten it safe to let the man interpret the writer? How far shall we resist or give way to the sympathies and an