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...In 1940, apparently unfazed by her lack of qualifications, she moved to Oxford and took philosophy lectures, mixing in academic circles with A J Ayer and Isaiah Berlin, who praised her “noble and unbending...
...Magee is in total command of the subjects at hand, his erudition almost threatening to overtake the narratives of interviewee luminaries such as A J Ayer, Peter Singer, John Searle et al as they recline...
...Ayer, arguably the world’s most authoritative empiricist by virtue of his logical positivism, was naturally sceptical about Dahl’s anecdote....
...An Oxford professor sundered from her by political fate, his eyebrows soldered into a donnish frown, his voice peckish, precise and petit point, he is a scarily exact blend of the late A J Ayer and the likewise...
...It happened in Britain in 1936, when A.J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic heralded the arrival of logical positivism, with its belief that statements about life’s meaning are literally meaningless....
...Collingwood, George Orwell, A.J.P. Taylor and A.J. Ayer. Each of these reflects in a different way the “paradoxes of denial” that characterise the British attitude towards intellectuals....
...Ayer and a varying cast list of co-signatories protesting against some harsh act of foreign policy or violation of civil liberties....
...The early work of A.J. Ayer, the Vienna Circle’s representative in the UK, resonated with hostility towards metaphysics and to tradition in all its forms. By the time the legal philosopher H.L.A....
...What will members of the Palm Springs and Palm Beach literary societies (both of whom he has addressed in the past year) make of the references to Emmanuel Kant and A.J. Ayer?...
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