Contributions to the Axiomatic Foundations of Set Theory (1957)
Doctoral advisor
Alfred Tarski
Doctoral students
Nino Cocchiarella Hans Kamp
Main interests
Mathematics (axiomatic set theory, model theory), philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language
Notable ideas
Formal semantics, Montague grammar
Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize the semantics of natural language. As a student of Alfred Tarski, he also contributed early developments to axiomatic set theory (ZFC). For the latter half of his life, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles until his early death, believed to be a homicide, at age 40.
Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic...
Montague grammar is an approach to natural language semantics, named after American logician RichardMontague. The Montague grammar is based on mathematical...
members of this tradition of formal semantics include Tarski, Carnap, RichardMontague and Donald Davidson. On the other side of the divide, and especially...
analytic/synthetic distinction. Subsequently, RichardMontague made heavy use of meaning postulates in the development of Montague grammar, and they have features prominently...
(/ˈmɒntəɡjuː/, MON-tə-ghew), also known throughout history as Montagud, Montaigu, Montague, Montacute (Latin: de Monte Acuto, lit. 'from the sharp mountain'; French:...
is similar in construction to the unexpected hanging paradox, which RichardMontague (1960) used to demonstrate that the following assumptions about knowledge...
assertion about how it changes over time. One way of doing so, proposed by RichardMontague, is to adopt an intensional logic for natural language, thus allowing...
Bruce Alexander Montague (24 March 1939 – 16 August 2022) was a British actor, best known for his role as Leonard Dunn in the television sitcom Butterflies...
Scott–Montague semantics, is a formal semantics for modal logics. It is a generalization, developed independently by Dana Scott and RichardMontague, of...
saw a surge of interest in the 1970s following the work of RichardMontague, whose Montague grammar assumed a similar view of syntax. It continues to be...
Ryll-Nardzewski proved that Peano arithmetic cannot be finitely axiomatized, and RichardMontague proved that ZFC cannot be finitely axiomatized. Hence, the axiom schemata...
Linguistics Wars Compositional formal semantics arises from the work of RichardMontague and Barbara Partee Alternate syntactic systems develop in 80s Computational...
truth-conditional semantics by Donald Davidson (1917–2003). Tarski's student RichardMontague (1930–1971) formulated a complex formal framework of the semantics...
property of walking. Early influential theorists in this field were RichardMontague and Barbara Partee, who focused their analysis on the English language...
died of the flu in Wales. There was no religious ceremony. 1971 – RichardMontague was beaten to death, presumably by a male prostitute. 1973 – Amílcar...
Reasoning by Donald Kalish and RichardMontague, 1964 Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning by Donald Kalish, RichardMontague and Gary Mar, 1980 Kalish (Donald)...
and became part of the group that surrounded him, including me and RichardMontague; so it was at that time that we became friends. Scott was clearly in...
was clarified, the lambda calculus was only a formalism. Thanks to RichardMontague and other linguists' applications in the semantics of natural language...
behaviors. Other linguists who have influenced this theory include RichardMontague, who developed his version of this theory as he considered issues of...
Predication", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 21 (1980) "RichardMontague and the Logical Analysis of Language", in Contemporary Philosophy:...
Bradley RichardMontague Scriven (born 8 December 1993) is an English former first-class cricketer. Scriven was born at High Wycombe in December 1993....
Sarah Anne Louise Montague, Lady Brooke (born 8 February 1966), is a British journalist and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme The...
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