OJ434 Logic and natural language

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Mojmír Dočekal, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Strachoňová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Bc. Blanka Gross Čapková
Supplier department: Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 12:30–14:05 B2.32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 48 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/48, only registered: 0/48, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/48
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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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.
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, homeworks.
Assessment methods
Written exam, homeworks. The course is finished by the colloquium, both for a written exam and homeworks, for a successful classification two thirds of possible points are needed.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019.
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