Re-situating Ramsey's Principle
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Let us consider what can be called “Ramsey’s Principle” . It is the principle that “truth is the property of a belief that suffices for your getting what you want when you act on it” (Whyte, 1990: 149). When an action results in getting what one wants, i.e. when it leads to the satisfaction of one’s desires, the action is said to be successful. So, according to this principle, there is an internal relation between truth and success:
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تاریخ انتشار 2007