The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays

2013 Reprint of 1931 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930) was a British mathematician who also made significant and precocious contributions in philosophy and economics before his death 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, and in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and to Cambridge. This volume collects Ramsey’s most important papers. Contents: The foundations of mathematics.–Mathematical logic.–On a problem of formal logic.–Universals.–Note on the preceding paper.–Facts and propositions.–Truth and probability.–Further considerations.–Last papers.