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Ayer's James

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. C. S. Wernham
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada

Extract

In his The Origins of Pragmatism,1 A. J. Ayer unveiled a new James; and, clearly, he found his new one a good deal more attractive than the received ones. That is hardly surprising, for in some ways the new James looks remarkably like Ayer himself. The important question, however, is how far Ayer's James resembles the real one, and that is the subject of this paper. But let us see, first, where the new James looks different from the older ones.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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page 291 note 2 ibid. pp. 198–9; 39.

page 291 note 3 ibid. p. 199.

page 291 note 4 idem.

page 291 note 5 ibid. p. 196.

page 291 note 6 ibid. p. 204.

page 291 note 7 ibid. p. 199.

page 291 note 8 ibid. p. 201.

page 292 note 1 ibid. pp. 199, 205, 223.

page 292 note 2 ibid. pp. 212, 223.

page 292 note 3 ibid. p. 204.

page 292 note 4 ibid. p. 198.

page 293 note 1 ibid. p. 201.

page 293 note 2 idem.

page 293 note 3 ibid. pp. 196, 201.

page 293 note 4 ibid. pp. 201, 223.

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page 293 note 6 ibid. p. 223.

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