OJ434 Logic and natural language

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
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
Mon 16:40–18:15 N01023
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
At the end of the course students should be able to understand propositional logic; they will be able to use apparatus of formal logic; they will be able to analyse arguments in natural language and they will judge their logical validity. Students will make reasoned decisions about logical structure of natural language sentences which will allow them to better understand principles of rational argumentation.
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.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Lectures, class discussion. Student must write one test to complete the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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