The Problem of Knowledge
β Alfred Jules Ayer
π Library
π Macmillan
π English
In The Problem of Knowledge (1956), Ayer defended a context-based account of knowledge that had as its essential ingredients that some claim, p, counted as knowledge for a person, A, iff p was true, A was sure that p, and A had, in the relevant context, βthe right to be sureβ about the truth of p. T