| Title: | Universals of Law and of Fact |
| Authors: | Ramsey, Frank Plumpton |
| Keywords: | Laws of nature |
| Issue Date: | 1978 |
| Publisher: | Routledge & Kegan Paul |
| Citation: | Ramsey, F. P. 'Law and Causality: A. Universals of Law and of Fact', in F. P. Ramsey: Foundations: Essays in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics and Economics, edited by D. H. Mellor, Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 128-32. |
| Abstract: | The article argues that universals of law, i.e. the laws of nature, are the general axioms of a deductive system of all knowledge, and their deductive consequences. Universals of fact are generalisations deducible from these together with particular facts. |
| Description: | This file contains a photograph of Ramsey's original manuscript, written in March 1928. It is republished in F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers, edited by D. H. Mellor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, ch. 7A, pp. 140-4. A PDF file of the manuscript is made available here by permission of the University of Pittsburgh, who hold the copyright until it expires in 2028. |
| URI: | http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/194721 |
| Appears in Collections: | Frank Plumpton Ramsey
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