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RAMSEY, Frank Plumpton (1903-1930). Three autograph manuscripts, written on the versos of undergraduate notes, and comprising: (1) note on propositions advanced by [G.E.] Moore, inscribed at head ('F.P. Ramsey'), 24 January 1921, 'Moore doesn't define ought in terms of value ... When Moore says that a beautiful but unobserved scene is valueless, does he mean that it possesses zero intrinsic value, or that it doesn't possess intrinsic value at all, positive, zero or negative?', one page, 4to ; (2) review of John Maynard Keynes, A Treatise on Probability , with corrections and approximately eighteen lines scored through, edited and marked up for press, [c.1922], 'Mr Keynes takes probabilities or probability relations as indefinable ... Mr Keynes is like a surveyor who, afraid that his estimates of the heights of mountains might be erroneous, decided that were he to talk about actual heights he would be altogether adrift in the unknown ... when he came to a mountain hidden in mist he assigned it a non-numerical height because he could not see if it were taller or shorter than the others', 5 pages, 4to ; (3) an examination of 'the Douglas proposals' on wages, salaries and dividends, with some printer's marks, 2½ pages, 4to, in autograph, and 6 pages, 4to, in unknown hand . Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-30) was appointed in 1926 a university lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge. On mathematics itself he published only eight pages in his lifetime, but this subsequently became the basis of a whole branch of mathematics known as Ramsey theory. He equally prompted two flourishing branches of the economics: optimal taxation and optimal accumulation. Two articles associated with these manuscripts, 'Mr Keynes and Probability' and 'The Douglas Proposals' were subsequently published in Cambridge Magazine in 1922. (3)
RAMSEY, Frank Plumpton (1903-1930). Three autograph manuscripts, written on the versos of undergraduate notes, and comprising: (1) note on propositions advanced by [G.E.] Moore, inscribed at head ('F.P. Ramsey'), 24 January 1921, 'Moore doesn't define ought in terms of value ... When Moore says that a beautiful but unobserved scene is valueless, does he mean that it possesses zero intrinsic value, or that it doesn't possess intrinsic value at all, positive, zero or negative?', one page, 4to ; (2) review of John Maynard Keynes, A Treatise on Probability , with corrections and approximately eighteen lines scored through, edited and marked up for press, [c.1922], 'Mr Keynes takes probabilities or probability relations as indefinable ... Mr Keynes is like a surveyor who, afraid that his estimates of the heights of mountains might be erroneous, decided that were he to talk about actual heights he would be altogether adrift in the unknown ... when he came to a mountain hidden in mist he assigned it a non-numerical height because he could not see if it were taller or shorter than the others', 5 pages, 4to ; (3) an examination of 'the Douglas proposals' on wages, salaries and dividends, with some printer's marks, 2½ pages, 4to, in autograph, and 6 pages, 4to, in unknown hand . Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-30) was appointed in 1926 a university lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge. On mathematics itself he published only eight pages in his lifetime, but this subsequently became the basis of a whole branch of mathematics known as Ramsey theory. He equally prompted two flourishing branches of the economics: optimal taxation and optimal accumulation. Two articles associated with these manuscripts, 'Mr Keynes and Probability' and 'The Douglas Proposals' were subsequently published in Cambridge Magazine in 1922. (3)