Publication details
Pavel Tichý - nástin života a díla
| Title in English | Pavel Tichý - An Outline Of His Life And His Work |
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| Year of publication | 1996 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Pavel Tichý; logical semantics; logic; transparent intensional logic |
| Description | The present article followed the main points of the life and work of Pavel Tichý, talented logician of Czech origin. During the 60-th he was operating at Department of Logic (Charles univ.). Then he was teaching at University of Otago (New Zealand) more than 20 years. In the 70-th he has developed a novel conception of logic - Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL). Tichý proved in many articles that TIL works more plausibly then logic based on Freges Sinn-Bedeutung dualism (which leads to an undesirable contextualism) or on the excessive formalism. Roughly speaking, language is a code of "constructions" (i.e.meanings) and logic should study the relations among them. Tichý often criticized many personalities of logic (e.g.Quine, Montague, Kripke, Hintikka) but, with the exception of the discussion of verisimilitude (after which Tichý became famous), the criticized authors nearly never reacted to him. Tichýs theory of the individuals (and their "offices") is of the intense philosophical significance. |