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The article focuses on the book "The Problem of Knowledge," by A.J. Ayer. Ayer lashed out against the metaphysics enemy with the fervor of a Calvinist minister denouncing sin. His aim was to establish once and for all which statements are meaningful and which are not. The Problems of Knowledge is a bracing excursion into the rigors of epistemology; the fact that Ayer so often contradicts his own earlier doctrines in a sign, not of confusion, not of a weary maturity, but of a passionate intellectual honesty persisting long after the mental fireworks of his youth have sputtered out.

Discusses the decline of a professional's intellectual capacity as compared to an atom's half life. Reason why fresh engineering graduates are offered high salaries; Significance of maintaining competency; Implications of searching for new knowledge.