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60Mark Norris Lance and John O'Leary-Hawthorne, the grammar of meaning (review)Erkenntnis 49 (3): 403-409. 1998.
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100In this paper I would like to indicate that this interpretation of Gödel goes far beyond what he really proved. I would like to show that to get from his result to a conclusion of the above kind requires a train of thought which is fuelled by much more than Gödel's result itself, and that a great deal of the excessive fuel should be utilized with an extra care.
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60The pragmatization of semanticsIn Ken Turner (ed.), The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface From Different Points of View, Elsevier. pp. 419--442. 1999.
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51It is now often taken for granted that facts are entia non grata, for there exists a powerful argument (dubbed the slingshot), which is backed by such great names as Frege or Gödel or Davidson (and so could hardly be wrong), that discredits their existence. There indeed is such an argument, and it indeed is not wrong on the straightforward sense of wrong. However, in how far it knocks down any conception of facts is another story, a story which is anything but simple and perspicuous. In his book…Read more
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74When Bob Brandom, six years after publishing his opus magnum Making it explicit (hereafter MIE)1, produced his slender Articulating reasons2, many people expected that finally they would have a concise introduction to his philosophical views. Their expectations, however, were to be dashed: Articulating reasons is a heterogeneous collection of texts elaborating on some of the topics of MIE and hardly digestible without the background of MIE3. As yet, Brandom has produced nothing that could be tak…Read more
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35Ve svém článku ‘Je elementární logika totéž co predikátová logika prvního řádu?’ (Pokroky matematiky, fyziky a astronomie 42, 1997, 127-133) klade Jiří Fiala nesmírně zajímavou otázku, zda je opodstatněné ztotožňovat elementární logiku s predikátovou logikou prvního řádu; s pomocí argumentů propagovaných již delší dobu finským logikem a filosofem Jaako Hintikkou (viz již jeho Logic, Language-Games and Information, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973; nejnověji jeho The Principles of Mathematics Revisi…Read more
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66Význam a StrukturaOikoymenh. 1999.V knize konfrontuji běžné pojetí jazyka, podle kterého je význam záležitostí vztahu slovo-věc, se strukturalistickým pohledem, podle kterého význam nemůže existovat bez toho, aby byly výrazy určitým způsobem provázány mezi sebou. Ukazuji, že takový strukturalismus není jen věcí Ferdinanda de Saussura, ale že se vyskytuje (pod jménem holismus) i v základech (post)analytické filosofie Quina, Davidsona, Sellarse a Brandoma. Ukazuji také, že není neslučitelný s formálně-logickým přístupem k významu,…Read more
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71Meaning and inferenceIn Timothy Childers & Ondrej Majer (eds.), Logica Yearbook 2002, Filosofia. 2003.In this paper we first propose an exact definition of the concept of inferential role, and then go on to examine the question whether subscribing to inferentialism necessitates throwing away existing theories of formal semantics, as we know them from logic, or whether these could be somehow accomodated within the inferentialist framework. The conclusion we reach is that it is possible to make an inferentialist sense of even those common semantic theories which are usually considered as incompati…Read more
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20Raclavský vs.“Notorious, Chameleonic Deceivers”Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 16 (2): 239-241. 2009.
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Ještě jednou : o co jde BrandomoviOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 11 (2): 194-197. 2004.
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147Criteria for logical formalizationSynthese 190 (14): 2897-2924. 2013.The article addresses two closely related questions: What are the criteria of adequacy of logical formalization of natural language arguments, and what gives logic the authority to decide which arguments are good and which are bad? Our point of departure is the criticism of the conception of logical formalization put forth, in a recent paper, by M. Baumgartner and T. Lampert. We argue that their account of formalization as a kind of semantic analysis brings about more problems than it solves. We…Read more
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29What is structuralism? The stock To explain why we should see Quine can translate the natives’ gavagai either as answer is that it is the brainas a structuralist, I would like to revive rabbit or as undetached rabbit’s part, so he child of Ferdinand de his widely discussed thought experican translate his peers’ rabbit either as Saussure, later fostered by Levi-Strauss, ment, featuring a field linguist decipherrabbit or as undetached rabbit’s part. Hence Foucault, Derrida and their allies. But I …Read more
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109Logical Rules and the a priori: Good and Bad QuestionsIn Jean-Yves Béziau & Alexandre Costa-Leite (eds.), Perspectives on Universal Logic, . pp. 111--122. 2007.
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48Th is review article discusses Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance’s (2009) book on normative speech act theory and Joseph Heath’s (2008) book on rule following, putting them into the context of the general problem of normativity of human discursive practices (and human practices in general). Th e upshot of the discussion is that while Heath’s book advances our understanding of the normative dimension of human life, prominently including human language, Kukla and Lance’s one presents a deeply i…Read more
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11Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content have chosen to do precisely this: what they present is a dialogic confrontation of two different kinds of views of a certain aspect of language, resulting into a partial synthesis. I should say immediately that this unusual form was a happy choice; but to explain why we must return to the roots of formal semantics
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A. Noë, Out Of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, And Other Lessons From The Biology Of ConsciousnessOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (2): 254-260. 2011.
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73Logic and the Pursuit of MeaningIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: The Legacy of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, De Gruyter. pp. 193-212. 2014.
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Fenomenologie a analytická filosofieOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 11 (3): 297-313. 2004.
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Quine a rozhraní mezi analytickým a syntetickýmFilosoficky Casopis 51 84-92. 2003.[Quine and the analytic-synthetic distinction]
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36The proof of correctness and completeness of a logical calculus w.r.t. a given semantics can be read as telling us that the tautologies (or, more gen erally, the relation of consequence) specified in a model theoretic way can be equally well specified in a proof theoretic way, by means of the calculus (as the theorems, resp. the relation of inferability of the calculus). Thus we know that both for the classical propositional calculus and for the clas sical predicate calculus theorems and tautolo…Read more
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Je vyplývanie fakt a má empirický charakter?Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 2 (3): 277-292. 1995.
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29Dynamická sémantika a dynamická logikaOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 3 (4): 333-348. 1996.The “dynamic turn” in semantic theory of natural language, which has been taking place roughly during the last decade, has resulted into seeing the meaning of a sentence as a “context-change-potential”, as a function which maps the set of possible contexts on itself. The development of theories of this kind has been stimulated especially by the effort to semantically cope with the anaphoric items of natural language . The most significant species of dynamic semantic theories are represented by K…Read more
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W. V. O. Quine, Z Logického HľadiskaOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (1): 118-121. 2007.
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