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Alfred Jules Ayer - The foundations of empirical knowledge (1940)

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I am using the word "perceive". I am using it here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word. If there is thought to be a difficulty here, it is perhaps because there is also a correct and familiar usage of the word "perceive", in which to say of an object that it is perceived does carry the implication that it exists.

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Born: October 29, 1910
Died: June 27, 1989 (aged 78)
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