In:Leibniz. Language, Signs and Thought: A collection of essays
Marcelo Dascal †
[Foundations of Semiotics 10] 1987
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Table of contents
A manuscript of Leibniz on the use of charactersvii
Forewordix
1. Language and money: a simile and its meaning in 17th century philosophy of language1
2. Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke and Descartes on signs, memory and reasoning31
3. Signs and thought in Leibniz's Paris Notes47
4. Leibniz's early views on definitions61
5. On knowing truths of reason81
6. Reason and the mysteries of faith: Leibniz on the meaning of religious discourse93
7. About the idea of a generative grammar in Leibniz125
Appendix: Leibniz's texts on language, signs and thought145
1. On the demonstration of primary propositions (1671/2)147
2. The analysis of languages (1678)161
3. A geometric characteristic (1679)167
4. Verbal characteristic (1680, approximately)175
5. Thought, signs, and the foundations of logic (after 1684)181
6. On the connection between words and things (undated)189
Bibliography191
Index197
