Arthur Prior

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human logician philosopher

Arthur Prior was a 20th-century logician and philosopher best known as the founder of tense logic and a major contributor to modal and philosophical logic.

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instanceOf human ⓘ
logician ⓘ
philosopher ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship New Zealand ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1914-12-04 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1969-10-06 ⓘ
educatedAt University of Melbourne ⓘ
University of Otago ⓘ
employer University of Canterbury ⓘ
University of Manchester ⓘ
University of Oxford ⓘ
familyName Prior ⓘ
fieldOfWork logic ⓘ
modal logic ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
tense logic ⓘ
givenName Arthur ⓘ
hasAcademicDiscipline metaphysics ⓘ
philosophical logic ⓘ
influenced Dov Gabbay ⓘ
Kit Fine ⓘ
Nuel Belnap ⓘ
Saul Kripke ⓘ
influencedBy Aristotle ⓘ
C. I. Lewis ⓘ
Jan Łukasiewicz ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
mainInterest modal logic ⓘ
philosophy of time ⓘ
temporal logic ⓘ
movement analytic philosophy ⓘ
notableFor contributions to modal logic ⓘ
contributions to philosophical logic ⓘ
founding tense logic ⓘ
notableIdea branching time ⓘ
hybrid logic ⓘ
tense logic ⓘ
notableWork Formal Logic ⓘ
Papers on Time and Tense ⓘ
Past, Present and Future ⓘ
Time and Modality ⓘ
placeOfBirth Masterton ⓘ
surface form: Masterton, New Zealand
placeOfDeath Oslo, Norway ONNED1 ⓘ
positionHeld professor of philosophy ⓘ
religion Presbyterian ⓘ
surface form: Presbyterianism
sexOrGender male ⓘ
workLocation Christchurch, New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ
Manchester, United Kingdom ⓘ
Oxford ⓘ
surface form: Oxford, United Kingdom

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