OJ434 Logic and natural language

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Hoskovec, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
Thu 11:40–13:15 C11bezkodu
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
Course objectives
The course is an introduction to formal logic from the point of view of natural language. We will deal with the formalization of various construction of natural language more then with the deductive apparatus of formal logic. The course covers propositional and predicate logic.
Syllabus
  • Topics: introduction to technics and goals of formal logic; logic of truth functions and quantifiers; entailment, truth, deductive validity and formal deduction; application of logic and relation between logic and linguistics (main goal is to develop skills for verification of deductively valid arguments and for translation of natural language sentences into logical calculus). Side goals: some introductory themes from analytical philosophy and formal syntax.
Literature
  • TARSKI, Alfred. Úvod do logiky a metodologie deduktivních věd. Translated by Pavel Materna. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1966, 245 s. URL info
  • Gamut, L. T. F. Logic, language and meaning 1, 2. Introduction to logic (1), Intensional logic and logical grammar (2). Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  • Montague, R. The proper treatment of quantification in ordinary English. In Hintikka, J., Moravcsik, J. and Suppes, P. (eds) Approaches to natural language. Dordrecht : Reidel, 1973.
Assessment methods
Lectures, class discussion. Student must write one test to complete the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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