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Who was the greatest Cambridge philosopher of the 20th century?

Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, G Moore.

Hugh Miller, emeritus professor at Cambridge, wants to nominate a figure virtually unknown

outside academia, Frank Ramsey.

Ramsey, the son of a mathematician, himself became a mathematician, though his

awesome intellectual talents were applied to many areas. He learnt German in

next to no time and translated Wittgenstein's famous book, The Tractators Logico

for the Sophicus when he was just 19.

He died seven years later at the peak of his powers.

His brother Michael, who became the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury said Frank was

interested in almost everything.

Hugh Miller welcome to Philosophy Bites. Thank you very much. We're going to focus on Frank Ramsey on truth.

Could you say a little bit about who Frank Ramsey was?

Well, Frank Ramsey was born in 1903.

He was the son of a mathematics done at Cambridge.

He got to know quite a lot of mathematicians, philosophers, economists,

in Cambridge, contemporaries of his.

Then he did math at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduated in 1923,

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