Frank P. Ramsey Philosopher

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a precocious British philosopher, mathematician and economist who died at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and was instrumental in translating Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English, as well as persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1921.

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Birth date	February 22, 1903
Birth place	Cambridge
Date of death	January 19, 1930
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Epistemology Metaphysics Philosophy of mathematics Logic

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influenced	Ludwig Wittgenstein Susan Haack Iván Werning
influenced by	Bertrand Russell Charles Sanders Peirce Ludwig Wittgenstein
notable idea	Ramsey theory Redundancy theory of truth Ramsey sentences Ramsey–Lewis method
philosophical school	Analytic philosophy
region	Western philosophy