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Vagueness, Science, and Philosophy
Nosek, Jiří
The collection of 14 papers in Czech and Slovak given at the interdisciplinary seminar of the same title held in Prague 2001. The authors - philosophers and scientists - consider roles which phenomenon of vagueness plays in everyday life, arts, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, physics and biology.
Čelakovský and Philosophy?
Zumr, Josef
The article describec an influence od modern humanistic thinking over the world view of Čelakovský and an imprint of contemporary natural philosophy on his poetry.
Atomism in Science
Havlík, Vladimír
The article deals with the role of atomistic conception in science, from its birth to modern physics. Different evaluations of atomism from various point of view and the exhaustion of this idea is taken into consideration.
Knowledge representation, analysis of interrogative sentences and specification of queries over HIT conceptual schema
Duží, M. ; Materna, Pavel
The paper presents principles of knowledge representation and acquisition, in other words of logical analysis of (interrogative) sentences using a powerful logical tool, namely Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL).
The Logica Yearbook 2001
Childers, Timothy ; Majer, Ondrej
The volume comprises most of the papers presented at the international symposium LOGICA 2001. Reflecting the tradition of the LOGICA symposia, the papers deal with the broad range of problems in logic relevant to philosophy. Contributors include Ladislav Kohout, Veikko Rantala and Göran Sundholm.
Global Probability for Possible Worlds
Majer, Ondrej
In the majority of papers on probability in the framework of possible worlds the existence of a global probability distribution is taken for granted. The aim of the article is to discuss the epistemic aspect of this assumption in the connection to the status assigned to possible worlds. Two questions are discussed in particular: the justification of the global probability distribution and compatibility of the global probability assumption with the structure of the universe of the possible worlds.
Does it make sense to speak about the logical approach to probability today?
Childers, Timothy ; Majer, Ondrej
The article recapitulates the development of two approaches to the problem of the foundations of probability - the subjective and the logical. It discusses the advantages and drawbacks of both approaches at different stages of their development.
The Identity of Truth-Bearers in the Late Scholasticism
Dvořák, Petr
The paper concerns the problem whether it is possible for one and the same proposition to change its truth-value. The author under consideration is Rodrigo de Arriaga, Prague-based theologian and philosopher of the seventeenth century. His nominalism precludes this possibility.
On Traditional (Plus Some More Recent) Aspirations of the Notion of Truth in the Philosophy of Language
Koťátko, Petr
The author critically analyzes various arguments in favour of the central role of the notion of truth and truth-conditions in the theory of meaning: his conclusion is that truth-conditions are in no respect more fundamental than other types of satisfaction conditions.
Horwich's Conception of Meanings: How to Change his "Deflationary View" into a Non-Trivial Conception
Materna, Pavel
A critical comment to Horwich's deflationary theory of meaning: the deflationary view ignores the fact that the way the subexpressions of an expression are combined is language dependent unlike meaning, which is in a sense 'international'; the link between the grammatical structure and the respective construction (=the meaning from the viewpoint of transparent intensional logic) is not as direct and simple as it would follow from Horwich's conception.

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