Arthur Norman Prior | |
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Born | Masterton, New Zealand | 4 December 1914
Died | 6 October 1969 Trondheim, Norway | (aged 54)
Education | University of Otago (B.A., 1935; M.A., 1937)[1] |
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Relatives | Ian Prior (half-brother) |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Institutions | Canterbury University College |
Academic advisors | J. N. Findlay[1] |
Doctoral students | Max Cresswell Kit Fine |
Other notable students | Genevieve Lloyd[5] Jonathan Bennett[5] Richard Routley |
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Arthur Norman Prior (4 December 1914 – 6 October 1969), usually cited as A. N. Prior, was a New Zealand–born logician and philosopher. Prior (1957) founded tense logic, now also known as temporal logic, and made important contributions to intensional logic, particularly in Prior (1971).