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100			_aMaat, Jaap
245			_aPhilosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century _b Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz
260			_aNetherlands _bSpringer _c2004
300			_a415p
440		0	_aNew Synthese Historical Library:Texts and Studies in the History of Philoso; _v200400ENGGPS5
500			_aincludes index and biblioraphy
505	2		_aChapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 The Background 7 2.1 A new era 7 2.2 Aspects of the intellectual context 10 2.2.1 Attitudes towards language 10 2.2.2 The biblical tradition 12 2.2.3 Philosophical grammar 13 2.2.4 The logical tradition 14 2.3 Plans and projects: universal writing 16 2.3.1 A real character and the myth of a universal writing 16 2.3.2 Schemes for a universal writing 23 2.4 Proposals for a philosophical language 27 Chapter 3 Dalgarno: the Art of Signs 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 A universal character and a philosophical language 38 3.2.1 The problem posed by the subtitle 38 3.2.2 From shorthand to universal writing 39 3.2.3 From writing to language 42 3.2.4 The character and the language of Ars Signorum 44 3.3 The emergence of the philosophical language 47 3.3.1 The early scheme versus Ars Signorum 47 3.3.2 From mnemonics to predicaments 48 3.3.3 The debate concerning the radicals 54 3.3.4 The particles and the `great change` 59 3.4 The lexicon of the philosophical language 62 3.4.1 Introduction 62 3.4.2 The first elements of signs 62 3.4.3 The predicamental series 65 3.4.4 The classificatory scheme 70 3.4.5 The lexicon of radical words 76 3.4.6 An analogical conformity between thing and sign 83 3.4.7 The largest part of the lexicon 91 3.5 The grammar of the philosophical language 101 3.5.1 Logical form as a basis for the grammar 101 3.5.2 The part of speech 103 3.5.3 The compromise between logical form and inflectional system 110 3.5.4 Syntax 117 3.5.5 The particles 119 3.5.6 The philosophical language in practice 125 3.6 Concluding remarks 129 4. Wilkins: the Art of Things 135 4.1 Introduction 135 4.2 Aims and Principles 145 4.2.1 A useful invention 145 4.2.2 The defects of existing languages 149 4.2.3 Principles 154 4.2.4 A character and a language 158 4.3 The tables 163 4.3.1 The predicamental method 163 4.3.2 Genus, difference, species and the numerical arrangement 165 4.3.3 The number of categories and the convenience of the institution 172 4.3.4 Opposition and affinity 174 4.3.5 An encyclopedic lexicon 177 4.3.6 Taxonomy 181 4.3.7 Scope of the tables 182 4.3.8 The overall scheme 186 4.3.9 The tables of transcendentals 193 4.3.10 The tables of substance 4.3.11 The tables of accident 4.4 The lexicon 4.4.1 Radical words 4.4.2 Signa ad placitum 4.4.3 Compound words 4.5 Natural grammar 4.5.1 Aims 4.5.2 The parts of speech 4.5.3 Integrals and their derivations 4.5.4 Grammatical particles 4.5.5 Syntax 4.5.6 Orthography and orthoepy 4.5.7 Practice 4.6 Concluding remarks 5. Leibniz: the Art of Thinking 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The art of combinations 5.2.1 Combinatorics and its applications 5.2.3 Combinatorics vs. division: `use IX` 5.2.4 Combinatorics vs. division: `use X` 5.2.5 The extemporary essay 5.2.6 Use XI: a universal writing 5.2.7 The alphabet of human thoughts 5.3 Plan and purpose of the philosophical language 5.3.1 The English connection 5.3.2 An amazing invention 5.3.3 The calculus and the primitives 5.3.4 The elusive nature of the primitives 5.3.5 The analytical theory of truth 5.3.6 Method 5.3.7 A note on terminology 5.3.8 A language and a writing system 5.4 Words, ideas, things 5.4.1 The difficulty posed by Hobbes 5.4.2 Leibniz`s solution in the Dialogue 5.4.3 Leibniz and Locke 5.4.4 Language and thought 5.4.5 Language and things 5.5 Preliminary studies 5.5.1 A method for coining words 5.5.2 Definitions 5.5.3 Rational grammar 5.6 Leibniz, Wilkins, Dalgarno 5.6.1 Wilkins 5.6.2 Dalgarno
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