Alfred Jules Ayer’s belief in using logical positivism theory to determine the truth of a claim helped carry the tradition of British empiricism into the contemporary era
There’s an awful lot of universe out there to think about – pick a snail no one’s noticed and you’re off. It is not so easy to be an original philosopher. We’ve had nearly 2,500 years of, undertaken by the brightest people imaginable, on about four questions. Good luck to anyone who dreams of effecting a philosophical paradigm shift.
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