One of the blogs I read raised the topic of who one's earliest influences in philosophy were. Cohen's answer reminded me that I really didn't get started looking at philosophy until college. My intro to philosophy class looked at Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic, and I thought they were both brilliant. I still think that Hume was largely right, though I now find Ayer's version of positivism little more than a caricature of the real thing.
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