?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+Introduction+to+Pavel+Tichy+and+Transparent+Intensional+Logic.&rft.creator=Holster%2C+Andrew&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Cognitive+Science&rft.subject=Philosophers+of+Science&rft.description=Pavel+Tichy+(1936-1994)+was+a+Czech+philosopher+who+originally+studied+and+worked+at+Charles+University+in+Prague%2C+and+spent+the+second+half+of+his+life+in+New+Zealand+as+a+political+refugee.+Early+in+his+career+he+invented+intensional+logic%2C+simultaneously+with+Richard+Montague%2C+but+published+his+version+in+1971%2C+slightly+after+Montague's+1970+papers%2C+and+has+never+been+recognised+for+this+achievement.+But+this+was+only+the+beginning+of+his+work.+He+developed+a+highly+original+theory+of+semantics+called+Transparent+Intensional+Logic%2C+which+is+the+basis+of+an+important+research+program+based+in+the+Czech+Republic+and+Slovenia.+He+published+a+wide+range+of+original+work+in+semantics%2C+philosophy+of+logic+and+language%2C+philosophy+of+science%2C+and+metaphysics%3B+but+despite+the+indisputable+quality+of+this+work%2C+he+has+gained+little+contemporary+recognition.+This+article+provides+a+brief+introduction+to+his+work%2C+focussing+mainly+on+basic+ideas+of+his+intensional+semantics+and+his+theory+of+'constructions'.+&rft.date=2003-11&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=doc&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F1479%2F1%2FIntroduction%2520to%2520Pavel%2520Tichy%2520and%2520Transparent%2520Intensional%2520Logic.doc&rft.identifier=Holster%2C+Andrew+(2003)+An+Introduction+to+Pavel+Tichy+and+Transparent+Intensional+Logic.+[Preprint]&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F1479%2