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MILESTONES, Page 67
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.