FI:I029 Logical Analysis of Natural La - Course Information
I029 Logical Analysis of Natural Language
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 1997
- 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
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)
- 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
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1997, recent)
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