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- DIED. Alfred Jules Ayer, 78, one of the century's
- outstanding philosophers and a leading proponent of logical
- positivism; in London. The author of 20 works, including
- Language, Truth and Logic, published when he was 25, Ayer
- steered philosophy away from metaphysics and toward the
- disciplines of natural science and linguistics. He taught at
- Oxford and many American universities.
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