
Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy Bites
The Relationship Between Frank Ramsey and Vickenstein
As an undergraduate, a nineteen year old kid was chosen to translate wickenstein's very, very difficult tractatis. They spent two weeks going over the tractatis, line by line. Ramsey again went off to visit vickenstein. And then they had a bit of a break in their relations. Kaines had just been married. His honeymoon was interrupted. He and ramsey had a quarrel about psychoanalysis. Wickenstein wouldn't speak to ramsey for the next two years. But when wickenstein came back to cambridge in 19 twenty nine, he and ramsey got back together - it happened to be the last year of ramsey's life....
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