{"id":5001,"date":"2006-07-06T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2006-07-06T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:28:19","slug":"logical-positivism-and-chivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5001","title":{"rendered":"logical positivism and chivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until yesterday, I did not know the following story about the major British philosopher A.J. Ayer, which <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._J._Ayer\">wikipedia <\/a>borrows from Ben Rogers&#8217; life of Ayer. In 1987, &#8220;At a party &#8230; held by fashion designer Fernando Sanchez, Ayer, then 77, confronted Mike Tyson harassing Naomi Campbell. When Ayer demanded that Tyson stop, the boxer said: &#8220;Do you know who the **** I am? I&#8217;m the heavyweight champion of the world,&#8221; to which Ayer replied: &#8216;And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest that we talk about this like rational men.&#8217; Ayer and Tyson then began to talk, while Naomi Campbell slipped out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pyke-eye.com\/a\/phil\/sir-aj-ayer.jpg\" height=154 width=152><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boxnews.com.ua\/photos\/92\/mike-tyson40.jpg\" height=154 width=205><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until yesterday, I did not know the following story about the major British philosopher A.J. Ayer, which wikipedia borrows from Ben Rogers&#8217; life of Ayer. In 1987, &#8220;At a party &#8230; held by fashion designer Fernando Sanchez, Ayer, then 77, confronted Mike Tyson harassing Naomi Campbell. When Ayer demanded that Tyson stop, the boxer said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}