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| Series Editor's Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From Adam to Confusio Linguarum. .Genesis 2, 10, 11 | |
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| Before and After Europe | |
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| Side-effects | |
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| A Semiotic Model for Natural Language | |
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| The Kabbalistic Pansemioticism | |
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| The Reading of the Torah | |
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| Cosmic Permutability and the Kabbala of Names | |
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| The Mother Tongue | |
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| The Perfect Language of Dante | |
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| Latin and the Vernacular | |
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| Language and Lingusitic Behavior | |
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| The First Gift to Adam | |
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| Dante and Universal Grammar | |
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| The Illustrious Vernacular | |
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| Dante and Abulafia | |
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| The Ars Magna of Raymond Lull | |
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| The Elements of the Ars Combinatoria | |
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| The Alphabet and the Four Figures | |
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| The Arbor Scientarium | |
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| The Concordia Universalis of Nicholas of Cusa | |
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| The Monogenetic Hypothesis and the Mother Tongues | |
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| The Return to Hebrew | |
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| Postel's Universalistic Utopia | |
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| The Etymological Furor | |
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| Conventionalism, Epicureanism and Polygenesis | |
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| The Pre-Hebraic Language | |
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| The Nationalistic Hypotheses | |
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| Philosophers against Monogeneticism | |
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| A Dream that refused to Die | |
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| New Prospects for the Monogenetic Hypothesis | |
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| Kabbalism and Lullism in Modern Culture | |
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| Magic Names and Kabbalistic Hebrew | |
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| Kabbalism and Lullism in the Steganographies | |
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| Lullian Kabbalism | |
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| Bruno: Ars Combinatoria and Infinite Worlds | |
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| Infinite Songs and Locutions | |
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| The Perfect Language of Images | |
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| Horapollo's Hieroglyphica | |
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| The Egyptian Alphabet | |
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| Kircher's Egyptology | |
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| Kircher's Chinese | |
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| The Kircherian Ideology | |
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| Later Critics | |
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| The Egyptian vs. the Chinese Way | |
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| Images for Aliens | |
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| Magic Language | |
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| Hypotheses | |
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| Dee's Magic Language | |
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| Perfection and Secrecy | |
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| Polygraphies | |
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| Kircher's Polygraphy | |
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| Beck and Becher | |
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| First Attempts at a Content Organizations | |
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| A Priori Philosophical Languages | |
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| Bacon | |
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| Comenius | |
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| Descarted and Mersenne | |
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| The English Debate on Character and Traits | |
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| Primitives and Organization Content | |
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| George Dalgarno | |
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| John Wilkins | |
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| The Tables and the Grammar | |
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| The Real Characters | |
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| The Dictionary: Synonyms, Periphrases, Metaphors | |
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| An Open Classification? | |
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| The Limits of Classification | |
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| The Hypertext of Wilkins | |
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| Francis Lodwick | |
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| From Liebniz to the Encyclopedie | |
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| Characteristica and Calculus | |
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| The Problem of the Primitives | |
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| The Encyclopedia and the Aphabet of Thought | |
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| Blind Thought | |
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| The I Ching and the Binary Calculus | |
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| Side-effects | |
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| The 'Library' of Liebnitz and the Encyclopedie | |
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| Philosophic Language from the Enlightenment to Today | |
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| Eighteenth-century Projects | |
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| The Last Flowering of Philosophic Languages | |
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| Space Languages | |
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| Artificial Intelligence | |
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| Some Ghosts of the Perfect Language | |
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| The Internatonal Auxiliary Languages | |
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| The Mixed Systems | |
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| The Babel of A Posteriori Languages | |
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| Esperanto | |
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| An Optimized Grammar | |
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| Theoretical Objections and Counter-objections | |
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| The 'Political' Possibilitites of an IAL | |
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| Limits and Effability of an IAL | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Translation | |
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| The Gift to Adam | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |