Friammers,
>From a review by Kieran Setiya of Cherl Misak's FRANK RAMSEY: A SHEER EXCESS OF POWERS. Oxford, 500 pp, 25# which appears in the feb 18 issue of the London Review of Books. No, I don't read it. My wife does, though. Drawing on the American pragmatist C. S. Peirce, he applies to the secondary system "Peirce's notion of truth as what everyone will believe in the end." Scientific theories can't be true, for Ramsey, in the sense of picturing facts," but they can be called 'true" when they serve their purpose indefinitely, in the light of all future evidence. Apparently, Ramsey was quite the guy. Dead at 27. N Nick Thompson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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