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Which Oxford tutor called A.J. Ayer his best student?
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A.J. Ayer
British philosopher and educator A.J. Ayer, late 1980s.
The Oxford tutor who described A.J. Ayer as "the best student I have yet been taught by" was the philosopher Gilbert Ryle.1