Realism and pragmatism

• Published in: Frank Ramsey pp. 27 - 44
• Main Authors: Dokic, Jérôme, Engel, Pascal
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Presses Universitaires de France 2001; Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Philosophy of mathematics; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Reliable Process; Counterfactual Conditionals; Conditional Dispositions; Belief Habits; Overburdening; Atomic Propositions; Ramsey's Principle; Nonlinguistic Behaviour; Inferential Habits; Ramsey Test; Complex Universals; Logisch Philosophische Abhandlung; Inductive Beliefs; Ramsey Sentence; Epistemic Logic; Genuine Laws; Ramsey's Argument; PGC; Indicative Conditionals; Epistemic Theory Of Truth; Ramsey's Conception; Informational Equilibrium; Subject Predicate Distinction; Ramsey's View; Variable Hypotheticals

We have seen how Ramsey drew from his views on subjective probability a pragmatist conception of the justification of inductive beliefs (§1.2). In two short notes, "Reasonable degree of belief" (1928) and "Knowledge" (1929) he also draws the consequences of this conception for an...