Ayer sees philosophy as attempting to justify our basic scientific and commonsense beliefs.
Ayer sees philosophy as attempting to justify our basic scientific and commonsense beliefs.
Such beliefs, if legitimate, would be justified by sense experience -- not by philosophy. Thus science and common sense have no need for philosophy to give them a "foundation."
Ayer sees philosophy as attempting to justify our basic scientific and commonsense beliefs.
Such beliefs, if legitimate, would be justified by sense experience -- not by philosophy. Thus science and common sense have no need for philosophy to give them a "foundation."