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Filosofie Pavla Tichého: základní myšlenková témata a jejich souvislosti
| Title in English | The Philosophy of Pavel Tichý: His Key Ideas and Their Contexts |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Filozofia a slovanské myšlienkové dedičstvo: osobnosti, problémy, inšpirácie |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Pavel Tichý; analytical philosophy; 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 university). 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 Frege's 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 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. Tichý's theory of the individuals (and their "offices") is of the intense philosophical significance. |
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