On Truth Original Manuscript Materials (1927–1929) from the Ramsey Collection at the University of Pittsburgh / by Frank Plumpton Ramsey ; edited by N. Rescher, Ulrich Majer.

The present publication forms part of a projected book that F. P. Ramsey drafted but never completed. It survived among his papers and ultimately came into the possession of the University of Pittsburgh in the circumstances detailed in the Editor's Introduction. Our hope in issuing this work at...

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Main Author: Ramsey, Frank Plumpton (Author)
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Other Authors: Rescher, N. (Editor), Majer, Ulrich (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991.
Edition:1st ed. 1991.
Series:Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied ; 16
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Table of Contents:
  • On Truth
  • Introduction: Logical Values
  • I. The Nature of Truth
  • II. The Coherence Theory of Truth
  • III. Judgment
  • IV. Knowledge and Opinion
  • V. Judgment and Time
  • Appendix I: Older Draft Versions
  • Introductory
  • I. The Nature of Truth
  • II. The Coherence Theory of Truth
  • III. Judgment
  • V. Judgment and Time
  • Appendix II: Supplemental Material
  • 1. The Nature of Proportions (1921)
  • 2. “On Justifying Induction”: Paper to the Society (1922)
  • 3. “The Long and Short of It”
  • Name Index.