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Alfred Jules Ayer (1910 – 1989)


Better known as A J Ayer or Freddie Ayer, was a British humanist philosopher.
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Alfred Jules Ayer
Freddie became so much nicer after he died. He was not nearly so boastful. He took an interest in other people.
Ayer quotes
He was the antithesis of the philosopher of mystery and intimation, and he was not tempted to technicality. He lived assertively and was vain and cocksure — at some cost to his philosophical reputation, since other philosophers were as human in their judgements on him. He was also honest, humane, and more or less on the Left in politics. He liked society, was a man of many women, came to be self-judging, and after some sadness died bravely, on 27 June 1989.
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