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15 octobre 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.pup.53655
- isbn: 9782853999762
- eisbn: 9791036576850
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Eberhard Knobloch, « Leibniz’s Conception of a General Characteristic art or combinatorial art », Presses universitaires de Provence, ID : 10.4000/books.pup.53655
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Introduction Let us begin by speaking about noses and ears. In about 1676 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote a dialogue on Plato’s theory that the formation of concepts in the human soul is an act of reminiscence. Leibniz did not give it a title. It remained unpublished during his lifetime. I called it A dialogue on the introduction into arithmetic and algebra (Leibniz 1976a). The participants of the dialogue are Charinus alias Leibniz, a young boy, his father Aretaeus (the ‘virtuous’), an old, ...