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Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy Bites

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How Did Ramsey Influence Wickenstein?

Ramsey was long dead when wickenstein got into this way of thinking about the forms of life in which communication and thinking take place. Vickenshein had to leave ramsey's hospital bed to give his first lecture since his return to cambridge. When vic stein went home that evening he wrote a long entry on how we mustn't focus on strict propositions, but we must look to the secondary world of hypotheses and expectations. That diary entry is just absolutely gripping for anyone who's interested in the relationship between ramsey and wickenstein....

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