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Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like W…
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science · British philosopher, mathematician and economist (1903–1930) · mathematician · philosopher · economist · also Frank P. Ramsey, Frank Plumpton Ramsey, Frank Ramsey, F. P. Ramsey, Ramsey
Born 22 February 1903 · Died 19 January 1930 · Q315387
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that philosophers are very liable to be misled by the subject-predicate construction of our language...that all propositions must be of the subject-predicate form, and so have been led to deny the existence of relations... all philosophers, including Mr Russell himself, have been misled by language in a far more far-reaching way than that... the whole theory of particulars and universals is due to mistaking for a fundamental characteristic of reality what is merely a characteristic of language.
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“It is a heuristic maxim that the truth lies not in one of the two disputed views but in some third possibility which has not yet been thought of, which we can only discover by rejecting something assumed as obvious by both the disputants.”
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“that philosophers are very liable to be misled by the subject-predicate construction of our language...that all propositions must be of the subject-predicate form, and so have been led to deny the existence of relations... all philosophers, including Mr Russell himself, have been misled by language in a far more far-reaching way than that... the whole theory of particulars and universals is due to mistaking for a fundamental characteristic of reality what is merely a characteristic of language.”
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The philosopher Donald Davidson gave the name "Ramsey effect" to anyone's realisation that their splendid new philosophical discovery already existed within Frank Ramsey's body of work
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And Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics in 2010 at the University of Cambridge
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As "three great legacies – legacies that were for the most part mere by-products of his major interest in the foundations of mathematics and knowledge
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Died 1930-01-19.
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Ramsey's paper "Universals" (1925) was also published in the compilation of his works, The Foundations of Mathematics (1931)
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Ramsey and Wittgenstein regularly discussed issues in mathematics and philosophy with Piero Sraffa, an Italian economist who had been brought to Cambridge by Keynes after Sraffa had aroused Benito Mussolini's ire by publ
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Became a university lecturer in mathematics and later a Director of Studies in Mathematics at King's College
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Ramsey proposed a simplification of the Theory of Types developed by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica
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But first published posthumously in 1931
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Studied at University of Vienna (1923–1924).
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Studied at Trinity College (1920–1923).
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Ramsey was befriended by Geoffrey and Margaret Pyke, then on the point of founding the Malting House School in Cambridge; the Pykes took Ramsey into their family, taking him on holiday and asking him to be the godfather
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Received his bachelor's degree in mathematics, passing his examinations with the result of first class with distinction, and was named Senior Wrangler (top of his class)
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Studied at Winchester College (1915–1920).
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And later returned to Cambridge to study mathematics at Trinity College
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Born 1903-02-22.
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