Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Braithwaite and Frank Ramsey and the other based in Vienna and including Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann, and other logical positivists later collectively known as the Vienna Circle. Both groups tried to make contact with Wittgenstein. Frank Ramsey made two trips to Puchberg—the small Austrian village in which…

…young English logician and philosopher Frank Ramsey showed how the system of Principia Mathematica could be revised by taking a purely extensional view of higher-order objects such as properties, relations, and classes—that is, by defining purely in terms of the objects to which they apply or the objects they contain.…

…obtained by the British mathematician Frank Plumpton Ramsey follows. He proved that for r ≥ 1, p ≤ r, q ≤ r there exists a number N_r(p, q) depending solely on p, q, r such that if n > N_r(p, q), there is either a subset A of

, Frank P. Ramsey, A.J. Ayer, and more recently Paul Horwich—have denied that truth can be a substantial property, arguing that all there is to the notion of truth is captured by instances of the equivalence schema. Even if this is accepted, however, it does not…

Tarski, including Gottlob Frege and Frank Ramsey, had suspected that the key to understanding truth lay in the odd fact that putting “It is true that…” in front of an assertion changes almost nothing. It is true that snow is white if and only if snow is white. At most…

…von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Frank P. Ramsey, and Leonard J. Savage, among others. Ramsey and Savage stressed the importance of subjective probability as a concomitant ingredient of decision making in the face of uncertainty. An alternative approach to subjective probability without the use of utility theory was developed by…