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The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge

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In A.J. Ayer: Language, Truth, and Logic
…important papers and a book, The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge (1940), he wrestled with critics who doubted that all meaningful discourse could be analyzed in terms of sense experience. In particular, he turned for the first time to a careful analysis of the “sense-data” that empiricists had always claimed were…
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perception and existence

$optical illusion: refraction of light$
In epistemology: Realism
In his work Foundations of Empirical Knowledge (1940), Ayer called the difficulty “the egocentric predicament.” When a person looks at what he thinks is a physical object, such as a chair, what he is directly apprehending is a sense-datum, a certain visual appearance. But such an appearance seems…
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