Pavel Tichy

February 18, 1936 (age 58)

Brno, Czechoslovakian Republic

He worked in the field of intensional logic and founded Transparent Intensional Logic, an original theory of the logical analysis of natural languages – the 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. He spent roughly 25 years working on lieutenant His main work is a book The Foundations of Frege"s Logic, published by Walter de Gruyter in 1988. His family lived in Zlín until 1948 when they moved to Vsetín. At school he was already a brilliant student. He also liked playing music of Jaroslav Ježek on the piano. He stayed there tutoring as an assistant from 1961 to 1968 at the department of Logic at Faculty of Philosophy. One of his other hobbies was carpentry. He was said to be perfectionist in everything he did, whether he was learning a foreign language or making a table. 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 invaded Czechoslovakia in the Prague Spring. He decided not to return. In 1970 he emigrated with his family to New Zealand, by ship. He started teaching at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand where he became Professor of Philosophy at Otago in 1981. Tichý stayed teaching there until his death. He is remembered as ferocious debater who liked to express his views directly regardless of any bad implications it could have. This made him a lot of friends but also a lot of enemies. Four years after the Velvet revolution, in 1993, Tichý 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 up this position. Degrees and academic appointment Doctor of Philosophy. (Charles University, 1959), thesis: Výklad Gödelovy věty o neúplnosti v prosté teorii typů Candidate of Sciences (Charles University, 1964), thesis: Vyčíslitelnost ve vztahu k teoriím Docent (Charles University, 1969), thesis: Intensions in Terms of Turing Machines and On the Vicious Circle in Definitions: Two Studies in Logical Semantics Doctor of Philosophy (Exeter University, 1971), thesis: Contributions to the Theory of Postulate Systems Associate Professor, University of Otago, 1978 Professor, University of Otago, 1981.

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Tichý was born in Brno in 1936. His father was an insurance clerk.

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Tichý graduated in 1959 at Charles University in Prague.

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He worked in the field of intensional logic and founded Transparent Intensional Logic, an original theory of the logical analysis of natural languages – the 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. He spent roughly 25 years working on lieutenant His main work is a book The Foundations of Frege"s Logic, published by Walter de Gruyter in 1988.

His family lived in Zlín until 1948 when they moved to Vsetín.

At school he was already a brilliant student. He also liked playing music of Jaroslav Ježek on the piano.

He stayed there tutoring as an assistant from 1961 to 1968 at the department of Logic at Faculty of Philosophy. One of his other hobbies was carpentry.

He was said to be perfectionist in everything he did, whether he was learning a foreign language or making a table.

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 invaded Czechoslovakia in the Prague Spring. He decided not to return.

In 1970 he emigrated with his family to New Zealand, by ship.

He started teaching at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand where he became Professor of Philosophy at Otago in 1981. Tichý stayed teaching there until his death.

He is remembered as ferocious debater who liked to express his views directly regardless of any bad implications it could have. This made him a lot of friends but also a lot of enemies.

Four years after the Velvet revolution, in 1993, Tichý 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 up this position. Degrees and academic appointment

Doctor of Philosophy. (Charles University, 1959), thesis: Výklad Gödelovy věty o neúplnosti v prosté teorii typů

Candidate of Sciences (Charles University, 1964), thesis: Vyčíslitelnost ve vztahu k teoriím

Docent (Charles University, 1969), thesis: Intensions in Terms of Turing Machines and On the Vicious Circle in Definitions: Two Studies in Logical Semantics

Doctor of Philosophy (Exeter University, 1971), thesis: Contributions to the Theory of Postulate Systems

Associate Professor, University of Otago, 1978

Professor, University of Otago, 1981.

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