# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-prior
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:37:13.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-prior"
name: "Arthur Prior"
slug: "arthur-prior"
description: "Arthur Norman Prior, 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)."
tagline: "New Zealand logician and philosopher (1914–1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Prior_in_Wakefield_1959_from_son_Martin_Prior.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-12-04"
deathDate: "1969-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.61
  momentum:             8.94736842105263
  historical:           9.421528
  currentAttention:     27.18713450292398
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Arthur Norman Prior"
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    title: "Arthur Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Prior"
    title: "Arthur Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Prior"
    title: "Arthur Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Prior"
    title: "Arthur Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Prior"
    title: "Arthur Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Prior"
    title: "Arthur Prior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Prior"
    title: "Arthur Prior"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump