Quotes by Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The m >>

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no groun >>

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as un >>

Quotations about Theory

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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.

Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules