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On the General Characteristic

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, c. 1679 (in Loemker, ed.)

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Leibniz's programmatic essay on the characteristica universalis — a notation in which the structure of any thought might be expressed and any disagreement reduced to a calculation.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis

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The Academy · May 27, 2026

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