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Philosophical Haiku


A.J. Ayer (1910-1989)


by Terence Green




Speak not of ethics
 Nor God, nor metaphysics:
 Just stick to the facts.




AJ Ayer
Drawing of A.J. Ayer by Athamos Stradis 2021


Alfred Jules ‘Freddie’ Ayer was a philosophical descendant of the Wittgenstein who (contrary to his own opinion) hadn’t solved all of philosophy’s problems.


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