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47Over the last two decades, semantic theory has been marked by a continuing shift from a static view of meaning to a dynamic one. The increasing interest in extending semantic analysis from isolated sentences to larger units of discourse has fostered the intensive study of anaphora and coreference, and this has engendered a shift from viewing meaning as truth conditions to viewing it as the potential to change the "informational context"
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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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61Logic is usually considered to be the study of logical consequence – of the most basic laws governing how a statement’s truth depends on the truth of other statements. Some of the pioneers of modern formal logic, notably Hilbert and Carnap, assumed that the only way to get hold of the relation of consequence was to reconstruct it as a relation of inference within a formal system built upon explicit inferential rules. Even Alfred Tarski in 1930 seemed to foresee no kind of consequence other than …Read more
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2Logika 20. století: mezi filosofií a matematikou: výbor textů k moderní logice (edited book)Filosofia. 2006.
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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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42In his sharp critique of contemporary theoretical linguistics, Pavel Tichý speaks about a scandal (The Scandal of Linguistics , From the Logical Point of view 3/92, 70-80). As a matter of fact, I am not quite unsympathetic with such a sharp criticism of linguistics; but the view of language and of linguistic theory presented in Tichý's essay seem to me to be so misguiding, that I doubt that his advice presented in the essay could really help linguistics "to get out off ground".
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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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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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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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Stephen P. Turner, Explaining the NormativeOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (3): 405-411. 2011.
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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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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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93Abstrakt. Když se řekne Ludwig Wittgenstein, vybaví se člověku, který to jméno už někdy slyšel, nejspíše termín jazyková hra. Tento termín si Wittgenstein vybral, aby se v rámci své pozdní filosofie distancoval od určitého druhu názorů na jazyk (druhu, kterého byly i jeho vlastní ranější filosofické názory). Chtěl jeho pomocí zdůraznit různorodost lidských aktivit, které se opírají o jazyk. Avšak ač to Wittgenstein úplně explicitně neříká, zdá se mi že je tu něco podstatného, co je podle něj pro…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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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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S. Bowles – H. Gintis, A Cooperative SpeciesOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (2): 260-266. 2012.
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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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58After putting forward his celebrated deflationary theory of truth (Horwich, 1998a), Paul Horwich added a compatible theory of meaning (Horwich, 1998b). I am calling also this latter theory deflationism (although it may be a slightly misleading name in that, as Paul himself notes, his theory of meaning is deflationary more in the sense of being forced by the deflationary theory of truth than of being particularly deflationary in itself). In contrast, what I call inferentialism is the theory of me…Read more
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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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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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