[lit-ideas] Re: The Vacuity of Truth and Knowledge

F. P. Ramsey, who was a colleague of Wittgenstein at

Cambridge used to say that all claims to knowledge and

truth are vacuous. His theories were ignored in Cambridge

(also, he died). In the famous "Bristol conference" (see

Warnock, "Bristol Revisited") there was a meeting of

the Aristotelian Society.
Nowhere does Ramsey say such a thing. He does though believe that although the _word_ 'true' seems hard to get rid of in ordinary language, that to say
'..."it is true that Caesar was murdered" means no more than that Caesar was murdered, and "it is false that Caesar was murdered" means that Caesar was not murdered.' 

[Symposium: Facts and Propositions, F. P. Ramsey; G. E. Moore,
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 7, Mind, Objectivity and Fact. (1927)*, pp. 153-206.]
*'The Semantic Conception of Truth,' was published in 1944, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 

Very truly yours,

Robert Paul
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