Re: Re: query: Frank Ramsey

["Ken Hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He was also a logician and philosopher. He developed a method of eliminating
reference to theoretical  entities in science and also treated
generalisations as rules for anticipating experience rather than
propositions. He is  infamous for his redundancy theory of truth, also
adopted by A.J. Ayer. As its name implies the theory holds that "is true"
and "is false" are redundant. In "It is true that Frank Ramsey is dead" the
"It is true" is redundant. You can say the same thing more simply : "Frank
Ramsey is dead" and with no redundancy. Positivists such as Ayer thought
this theory great since it meant there was no necessity for a theory of
truth at all. Forget all  those useless discussions of the coherence theory,
the correspondence theory or the pragmatiic theory or even the semantic
theory.
        Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:38 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:8481] Re: query: Frank Ramsey


> Frank Ramsey was mostly a mathematician.  Sraffa consulted with him when
> writing his book.  He also influenced Keynes on probability.  He is
> probably best known for Ramsey pricing, which is a scheme for pricing
> public utilities.
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:27AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
> > Yesterday, I received an e-mail advertising a macroeconomics textbook
that
> > was based on the ideas of Frank Ramsey. It wasn't Keynesian or
monetarist,
> > but Ramseyite (to paraphrase the blurb). Does anyone know anything about
> > Ramsey and his ideas? It sounds like he totally ignored the factor of
> > uncertainty in making decisions about the future, but I don't know
anything
> > about him.
> >
> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> >
>
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