Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Mary Anne Warren and A.J. Ayer

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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

4729	Empiricism lacked a decent account of the a priori, until Ayer said it was entirely analytic [O'Grady on Ayer]

5180	All propositions (especially 'metaphysics') must begin with the senses [Ayer]

5169	My empiricism logically distinguishes analytic and synthetic propositions, and metaphysical verbiage [Ayer]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism

5185	It is further sense-experience which informs us of the mistakes that arise out of sense-experience [Ayer]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

5199	Empiricism, it is said, cannot account for our knowledge of necessary truths [Ayer]