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The Pragmatists and the Human Logic of Truth


Author: Claudine Tiercelin
Source: Directory of Open Access Books
Publisher: Collège de France
ISBN: 9782722603394

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The expression “human logic of truth” is Frank P. Ramsey’s:“Let us therefore try to get an idea of a human logic which shall not attempt to be reducible to formal logic. Logic, we may agree, is concerned not with what men actually believe, but what they ought to believe, or what it would be reasonable to believe. What then, we must ask, is meant by saying that it is reasonable for a man to have such and such a degree of belief in a proposition?” Many themes developed by Ramsey in his work (o...