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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
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
Ayer quotes
The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future. There are only two ways of approaching this problem on the assumption that it is a genuine problem, and it is easy to see that neither of them can lead to its solution.
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