First edition. 8vo. x, 258, pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean; spine panel of jacket very slightly chipped at tips, short closed tear to lower corner of front panel, withal a very good copy). London, MacMillan & Co, 1956.
Ayer’s analysis of scepticism and the philosophical problems of perception, memory, and knowledge of other’s minds, ‘in which, abandoning reductionism, he justified our everyday beliefs by their power to explain our sense-experience’ (ODNB).
