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Ideas of Arthur N. Prior, by Text

[Australian, 1914 - 1969, Of Balliol College, Oxford.]

1960	The Runabout Inference Ticket

p.132

17896

We need to know the meaning of 'and', prior to its role in reasoning [Belnap]

p.135

17898

Prior's 'tonk' is inconsistent, since it allows the non-conservative inference A |- B [Belnap]

p.225

11021

Prior rejected accounts of logical connectives by inference pattern, with 'tonk' his absurd example [Read]

§09

p.236

13836

Maybe introducing or defining logical connectives by rules of inference leads to absurdity [Hacking]

1968	Changes in Events and Changes in Things

p.97

22899

'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday'

p.13

p.21

15201

That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne