Talk:A. J. Ayer

message: Can someone get a source for the Mike Tyson anecdote?  --LostLeviathan 02:57, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I think that this page needs to be expanded by at least two-fold. There is much more to Ayer's philosophy than what is presented here. There is much more to say about the verification principle, the debunking of it, the controversies, Ayer's other ideas, and the criticisms of Ayer. There should also be more about his life and experiences. Most of what is currently here about his life seems to concern the minor event of Ayer confronting tyson at a party.
:Are you up for the job?  Quite frankly, I think Language, Truth and Logic has been dealt justice in its own entry, and I don't see much point in reiterating it here.  Ayer's other philosophical works did not attract nearly as much attention -- Ayer's notoriety is fundamentally tied to the verification principle of logical empiricism. -- Palthrow 11:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page Needs expanding

message: Does Ayer belong in the Jewish Philosopher category?  Although he may have had jewish ancestry, I seem to recall from Rogers that his mother wasn't jewish (may be mistaken).  At any rate, Ayer was certainly never a practising Jew.  I'm not sure he belongs in this category.  Would like to hear what others think... -- Palthrow 18:08, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish philosopher???

message: Wikipedia has a strong atheistic bias. Theists tend to have criticisms which "debunk" their claims whereas athiests do not. I'm personally too apathetic to write, nor knowledgeable on the subject to the point where I can write a criticism, but one is needed.--Rotten 15:30, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is about Ayer - I don't see any need to criticize athiesm here, or his beliefs. For example, ask yourself if it would be appropriate to list all the arguments for athiesm on the pope's page? Criticism from others about his theorums (e.g. Ayer's sense-data theory in Foundations of Empirical Knowledge was famously criticised by fellow Oxonian J. L. Austin in Sense and sensibilia) are fine. Richard001 06:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Atheism wouldn't be the biggest challenge to the pope, that would be secularism and islam. But we need to add a criticism section on Ayer. Faro0485 (talk) 12:33, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticisms

message: Can anybody help me out with the pronunciation of Ayer's name?  Is it /ah-yer/ or /ay-yer/?
: My prof pronounces it A-yer as in the letter A, but according to Dictionary.com and M-W.com, it has the same pronunciation as 'air'. –Pomte 08:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation?

message: What did this involve? Millbanks 21:02, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the link in citation 4, he "choked on a piece of smoked salmon that stopped his heart for at least four minutes." –Pomte 21:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Link #9 is broken  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.65.182.110 (talk) 23:18, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Near-Death Experience

message: What was the cause? P Cezanne (talk) 20:24, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: This article says in one place that Ayer was married four times, and in another place, two. Which is correct? Markjoseph125 (talk) 18:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Now, there is more detail.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.119.171 (talk) 15:06, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Numerous other females are mentioned on various websites.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.119.171 (talk) 12:48, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriages 

message: This article names a new MI6 history an names Ayer as an agent. Nothing more in this article, but might be interesting to look into the book.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/21/mi6-first-authorised-history
--Tcheh (talk) 10:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Work for MI6 

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replies: text: Fixed - replaced it with a link that works. -- Alarics (talk) 06:57, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link 

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message: The introduction concludes,
Among British philosophers of the 20th century, he has been ranked by Stanford as second only to Bertrand Russell.
The Stanford page says:
Nevertheless, amongst British philosophers of the 20th Century he has been ranked as second only to Russell (by John Foster, in A.J. Ayer); Peter Strawson, at his memorial service, stated that his contribution to the theory of knowledge and general metaphysics was “in no way inferior to Russell's”. (See Ben Roger's A.J. Ayer p. 358).
The Stanford Encyclopedia does not rank Ayer as "second only to Russell", John Foster does. Strawson ranks him with Russell in two particular branches. As a result I have removed "the second only to Russell" sentence from the article. I hope this isn't presumptuous.
Coalpatch (talk) 20:35, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second only to Russell? 

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