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Six five-minute radio talks by D H Mellor on the use of words in philosophy broadcast on BBC Radio 3 between 5 February and 16 March 1978.
This radio portrait of F. P. Ramsey's life and work was written and presented by D H Mellor and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 27 February 1978. It includes contributions by A. J. Ayer, Richard Braithwaite, Dick Jeffrey, Lord Ramsey, Mrs Lettice Ramsey and I. A. Richards. Excerpts from Ramsey's writings are read by Hugh Dickson and from Maynard Keynes's writings by Gabriel Woolf.
Take first Pilate's notorious question 'What is truth?'. What does it mean to call someone's belief true? That question is as old and unsettled as anything in philosophy. Ramsey calmly suggested, in a one-page aside to his paper on 'Facts and propositions', that it's the wrong question. 'It is evident', he said, 'that 'It is true that Caesar was murdered' means no more than that Caesar was murdered'-and that in essence is all there is to the concept of truth. To assert that something is true is just to reassert the thing itself. The real question, Ramsey argued, is not what it is for my belief that Caesar was murdered to be true. That's easy: it's just for Caesar to have been murdered. The real question is what it is to believe that Caesar was murdered-as opposed on the one hand to hoping, fearing or having some other attitude to Caesar's murder, and on the other hand to having a belief about something else. If we can answer those questions we shall thereby also, Ramsey claimed, 'have solved the problem of truth'.
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