{"id":778,"date":"2012-04-02T09:07:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T09:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/?page_id=778"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T12:00:14","slug":"movie-promo-the-semantics-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/?page_id=778","title":{"rendered":"The Semantics of Murder (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Inspired by the life and work murder\u00a0of Richard Montague,\u00a0a brilliant and controversial logician at UCLA who was found strangled in his Beverly Hills home in 1971. \u00a0Montague&#8217;s\u00a0radical claim was that there was no theoretical difference between natural and formal\u00a0languages &#8211; in other words, a language like English could described using the techniques of mathematical logic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I first came across Montague as a student in the 1980s and was intrigued both by his theory and the circumstances surrounding his death. \u00a0In 2005, I was awarded a Thayer fellowship at UCLA where Montague&#8217;s archives are held and spent time with the LAPD Cold Case\u00a0detective working on Montague&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>CLick below to watch the Promo movie<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesemanticsofmurder.com\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-907 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TSM-Paperback-coverPROOF-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TSM-Paperback-coverPROOF-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TSM-Paperback-coverPROOF-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TSM-Paperback-coverPROOF-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TSM-Paperback-coverPROOF.jpeg 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the life and work murder\u00a0of Richard Montague,\u00a0a brilliant and controversial logician at UCLA who was found strangled in his Beverly Hills home in 1971. \u00a0Montague&#8217;s\u00a0radical claim was that there was no theoretical difference between natural and formal\u00a0languages &#8211; in other words, a language like English could described using the techniques of mathematical logic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1729,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-778","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions\/2170"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aifriccampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}