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A. J. Ayer
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer was an English philosopher who became professionally established through his exposition of major theses of logical positivism in Language, Truth, and Logic (1936). The work's dismissal of metaphysics, and endorsement of emotivism was the cause of much controversy and debate.
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culture · English philosopher (1910–1989) · philosopher of science · pedagogue · philosopher · university teacher · writer · also A. J. Ayer, Alfred Jules Ayer, Alfred J. Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules Ayer, Freddie, Ayer
Born 29 October 1910 · Died 27 June 1989 · Q243757
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2026· 4 entries
“Propositions describing the phenomena of moral experience, and their causes”
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“Propositions that express definitions of ethical terms, or judgements about the legitimacy or possibility of certain definitions”
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“I wish I was as certain of anything as he seems to be about everything”
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2018· 8 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,028 times.
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Published “Loss of ADAR1 in tumours overcomes resistance to immune checkpoint blockade” in Nature — cited 657 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 758 times.
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Published “Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 816 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 2,538 times.
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Published “Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 2,666 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 3,920 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,206 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Published “ING2 PHD domain links histone H3 lysine 4 methylation to active gene repression” in Nature — cited 737 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “Nuclear Receptor Repression Mediated by a Complex Containing SMRT, mSin3A, and Histone Deacetylase” in Cell — cited 1,023 times.
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1992· 1 entry
“Bibliography of the writings of A.J. Ayer”
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1989· 3 entries
Died 1989-06-27.
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“I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.”
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“It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”
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1988· 1 entry
A year before his death, Ayer wrote an article titled "What I saw when I was dead", describing an unusual near-death experience after his heart stopped for four minutes as he choked on smoked salmon
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1985· 1 entry
And in 1989 Ayer remarried Wells, who survived him
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1983· 1 entry
And the same year, Ayer married Vanessa Salmon, the former wife of politician Nigel Lawson
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1979· 1 entry
“The Philosophical Works of A. J. Ayer”
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1978· 1 entry
Was interviewed for Bryan Magee's Men of Ideas television show, where he spoke about logical positivism and its legacy, later in 1987 he appeared on Magee's The Great Philosophers in an episode centering on Frege, Rus
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1968· 1 entry
Edited The Humanist Outlook, a collection of essays on the meaning of humanism
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1965· 1 entry
Became the first president of the Agnostics' Adoption Society and in the same year succeeded Julian Huxley as president of the British Humanist Association, a post he held until 1970
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1960· 1 entry
Ayer married Alberta Constance (Dee) Wells, with whom he had one son
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1955· 1 entry
Published “An Empirical Distribution Function for Sampling with Incomplete Information” in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics — cited 628 times.
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1950· 2 entries
Ayer attended the founding meeting of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in West Berlin, though he later said he went only because of the offer of a "free trip"
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To test a machine's capability to demonstrate intelligence
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-10-29.
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