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Zrevidování pojmu jazykového faktu (Definice pojmového faktu)

Title in English Notion of 'Language Fact' Revisited (Definition of Conceptual Fact)
Authors

RACLAVSKÝ Jiří

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Organon F
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords fact; lingustic facts; conceptual facts; Transparent intensional logic
Description In his recent book Petr Kolář tried to define what he called 'linguistic fact'. According to him linguistic facts are necessary for understanding fact-talk (for example consider the difference between A is higer than B, B is smaller than A). Well, I have found many formal mistakes in his defintions. I revisited the very notion of 'lingustic' fact and rename it as 'conceptual fact' because these facts are related with (distinct) conceptual systems (not with language). Then I correctly defined conceptual fact as the empirical property of (Tichý's) cosntructions constructing propositions which are true (in a given possible world and time). Finally I have defined contingent and analytic conceptual fact, showed relevant examples of analysis and the relation of the topic to distinct conceptual systems.

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