I029 Logical Analysis of Natural Language I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1996
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Pavel Materna, CSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • The problem of meaning. Syntactics, Semantics, Pragmatics. Frege: Meaning and sense. Church's formulation.
  • Critique of Frege's semantics, critique of Quine.s behavioristic 'semantics'.
  • Possible-worlds theories; Montague, Kripke.
  • Functional theories of meaning. Functions as prescriptions, functions as mappings.
  • The principle of extensionality, of compositionality.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1995, Autumn 1997, Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.
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