Geoffrey Basil Bailey Hunter (14 December 1925 – 8 June 2000) was a British

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philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, and

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...

ian. Hunter was Professor Emeritus of the University College of Wales, Bangor, where he was professor from 1978 until he retired in 1992. He also taught at Queen's University

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(1950–1952) and was a

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in Philosophy at the

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(1952–1965), and reader in Logic at the

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(1965–1978). Geoffrey was probably most known for his work titled ''Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First-Order Logic'', published in 1971.

Published work

*Hunter, Geoffrey (1971). "Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard

First Order Logic First-order logic, also called predicate logic, predicate calculus, or quantificational logic, is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. First-order logic uses quantified variables over ...

". Macmillan *Hunter, Geoffrey (1973). "Not Both P and not Q, therefore if P then Q" is not a valid form of argument

Mind The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances ...

vol LXXXII:280-280 *Hunter, Geoffrey (1974). "Concepts and Meaning." in Hume and the Enlightenment: essays presented to Ernest Campbell Mossner / edited by William B. Todd *Hunter, Geoffrey (1980). "What do the Consistency Proofs for Non-Euclidean Geometry Prove?"

Analysis Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (38 ...

:40:79-83. *Hunter, Geoffrey (1988). "What Computers Can't Do"

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

:63:175-189. *Hunter, Geoffrey (1994). "Platonist Manifesto"

:69:151-62. *Hunter, Geoffrey (1995). "The Churchland's Eliminative Materialism : or the Result of Impatience."

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:18(1):13-30. *Hunter, Geoffrey (1995). "Quine's

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18(4): 305–328.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, Geoffrey 1925 births 2000 deaths 20th-century British philosophers Academics of Bangor University Academics of the University of Leeds Academics of the University of St Andrews British logicians Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston

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