Leibniz’s Lingua Characteristica and Its Contemporary Counterparts
There is no need to introduce Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a great philosopher, theologian, diplomat, creator (independently of Isaac Newton) of the infinitesimal calculus and founder of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He also planned the development of the so-called Lingua characteristica (the pl...
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| Language: | English |
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Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne / The Polish Semiotic Society
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Studia Semiotyczne |
| Online Access: | http://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/index.php/Studiasemiotyczne/article/view/180 |
| Summary: | There is no need to introduce Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a great philosopher, theologian, diplomat, creator (independently of Isaac Newton) of the infinitesimal calculus and founder of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He also planned the development of the so-called Lingua characteristica (the plan shared by other 17th century scholars). Literally taken, the name of the language means a language of letters, a graphic language, also called a characteristica universalis. It was meant to be a way of expressing meanings, as modeled after methods used in arithmetic and geometry (Leibniz also mentions logicians) and having unusual properties.
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| ISSN: | 0137-6608 2544-073X |