Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00165)

http://reliant.teknowledge.com/Wilkins/

An Essay Toward a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
by Bishop John Wilkins

This web site contains the full text and original page images of a
remarkable book written by Bishop John Wilkins in the 1600's. It
contains a large ontology, a written and spoken language derived from
the ontology, and a dictionary that maps terms in the ontology to
English. Examples that relate hundreds of other human languages to the
ontology are included. While many areas of the ontology are only of
historical interest, there are numerous insights into issues of
ontology and knowledge representation that should be of interest to
the modern reader. The scope and scholarship of the work are impressive.

Marie


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