Frank Ramsey Quotes on Truth
Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher of extraordinary precocity who, in a career cut short by his death at twenty-six, made foundational contributions to mathematical logic, the philosophy of probability, the philosophy of language, and economics. This page collects quotes attributed to Frank Ramsey on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Frank Ramsey:
“Beliefs are guides to action; their truth is their reliability.”
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Attributed to Frank Ramsey:
“What we cannot say at all, we cannot say either; nor can we whistle it.”
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Attributed to Frank Ramsey:
“Truth is the satisfaction of the conditions of an assertion.”
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Attributed to Frank Ramsey:
“We must always be brought back to the experiments and the data.”
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Attributed to Frank Ramsey:
“Philosophy is the clarification of thought, not the discovery of new facts.”