Philosophical Languages in the Seventeenth Century - Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)

This book discusses three linguistic projects carried out in the seventeenth century: the artificial languages created by Dalgamo and Wilkins, and Leibniz's uncompleted scheme. It treats each of the projects as self contained undertakings, which deserve to be studied and judged in their own right. For this reason, the two artificial languages, as well as Leib niz's work in this area, are described in considerable detail. At the same time, the characteristics of these schemes are linked with their intellectual context, and their multiple interrelations are examined at some length. In this way, the book seeks to combine a systematical with a historical ap proach to the subject, in the hope that both approaches profit from the combination. When I first started the research on which this book is based, I intended to look only briefly into the seventeenth-century schemes, which I assumed represented a typical universalist approach to the study of lan guage, as opposed to a relativistic one. The authors of these schemes thought, or so the assumption was, that almost the only thing required for a truly universal language was the systematic labelling of the items of an apparently readily available, universal catalogue of everything that exists."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The New Synthese Historical Library, 54
Release date:	February 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Jaap Maat
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	419
Edition:	2004 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-1758-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN:	1-4020-1758-8
Barcode:	9781402017582

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