Richard Milton Martin
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Richard Milton Martin (12 January 1916, Cleveland, Ohio ā 22 November 1985, Milton, Massachusetts) was an American logician and analytic philosopher.
Richard Milton Martin | |
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Born | 12 January 1916 Cleveland, Ohio |
Died | 22 November 1985 (aged 69) Milton, Massachusetts |
Academic background | |
Education | Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale University |
Thesis | A Homogeneous System for Formal Logic. (1941) |
Doctoral advisor | Frederic Fitch |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philosophy, logic |
Institutions | University of Texas, New York University, Northwestern University |
In his Ph.D. thesis written under Frederic Fitch, Martin discovered virtual sets a bit before Quine, and was possibly the first non-Pole other than Joseph Henry Woodger to employ a mereological system. Building on these and other devices, Martin forged a first-order theory capable of expressing its own syntax as well as some semantics and pragmatics (via an event logic), all while abstaining from set and model theory (consistent with his nominalist principles), and from intensional notions such as modality.