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- July 10, 1989: Died:Alfred Jules Ayer
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 10, 1989 You Bet Your Life:Pete Rose
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 67
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- <p> 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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