Pavel Tichý

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Pavel Tichý (18 February 1936 Brno, Czechoslovakia – 26 October 1994 Dunedin, New Zealand) was a Czech logician, philosopher and mathematician. He worked in the field of intensional logic and was a founder of Transparent Intensional Logic, an original theory of logical analysis of natural languages. This theory is devoted to the problem of saying exactly what it is that we learn, know and can communicate when we come to understand what a sentence means. His main work is a book The Foundations of Frege's Logic, published by Walter de Gruyter in 1988.

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Tichy graduated in 1959 at Charles University in Prague. In 1968 he received an invitation from Exeter University in the United kingdom. He was permitted to leave the country even though it was shortly after Soviet troops invasion to Czechoslovakia. He decided not to return back. In 1970 he emigrated with his family to New Zealand, taking a ship. He started teaching at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He became Professor of Philosophy at Otago in 1981. Four years after the Velvet revolution, in 1993, Tichy was offered the position of Head of the Department of Logic at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Charles University in Prague. He planned to move to Prague in 1995 but committed suicide before taking this position.

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P. Tichý (1988): The Foundations of Frege's Logic. De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1988, 333 pp., ISBN 3110116685
V. Svoboda, B. Jespersen, C. Cheyne (Eds.) (2004): Pavel Tichý's Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy. Filosofia, Prague and Otago University Press, Dunedin, 901 pp., ISBN 1877276987