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Quote: construct a Universal Character by assigning symbols for simple notions and compose these symbols for everything else; like logic and mathematics
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[Ward, S., Vindiciae Academiarum, Oxford, 1654] says: "My first proposal was to find … was presently resolved that Symbols might be found … So that an Universal Character might easily be … … "But it did presently occur to me, that … Discourses being resolved into sentences, those into words, … all the sorts of simple notions be found … other, … the reason of their composition easily known, and … eye all the elements of their composition, and … Google-1 Google-2
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Topic: history of mathematics (57 items)
Topic: reductionism (51 items)