This book is an attempt to bring out the influence of David Hume (1711-1776) on contemporary analytical thinkers particularly on A.J. Ayer (1910-1989) It tries to show how eventhough Ayer as a contemporary philosopher claimed to have different aims and objectives, his philosophy revolves and grows around the central tenets of Hume’s epistemology and ontology. Humes philosophical position has been traced from that of Descartes’, Locke and barkely. Thus the ...
