About Truth and Possible Worlds: Pavel Tichý and His Logical and Philosophical Research

• Authors: Perissutti Anna Maria
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is devoted to the brilliant Czech logician and philosopher of language Pavel Tichý (1936–1994) who, after emigrating to New Zealand in 1970 and spending half his life there as a political refugee, committed suicide shortly before returning to his alma mater, Charles University in Prague, as Chair of the Department of Logic in the Faculty of Arts. After tracing a biographical profile of the Czech logician, the paper explains some of the central ideas of Tichý’s highly original theory, called Transparent Intensional Logic, while locating it in the wider context of the analytic philosophy of language. The paper concludes by highlighting the role played by Tichý’s intensional theory in advancing various disciplines, including artificial intelligence, with the aim of shedding light on the significant contributions of the Czech logician, who has yet to gain due recognition.

Keywords

EN

Pavel Tichý; philosophy of language; semantics; intensional logic; intension; extension; possible worlds; truth values; constructions; exile; Communist regime

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 38 (Special Issue)
• Pages: 111-124

Contributors

author

Perissutti Anna Maria

• University of Udine

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366680.2021.3.7