The Limits of Logic

professor ayer suggests that his book ¹ may be of interest to the general reader, and it is as a general reader that I presume to comment on it. There is, indeed, much in his closely reasoned argument of general application; to follow it is a profitable mental discipline; and I can imagine no intelligence that would not benefit from its clear presentation of certain basic problems of philosophy. It is as a general reader that I am immediately held up by the first sentence of the first page: “It is by its methods rather than its subject-matter that philosophy is to be distinguished from other arts or sciences.”