Language, Mind and Nature

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Author: Rhodri LewisTitle: Language, Mind and NatureBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 288Release Date: 2012-03-29Details: In the attempt to make good one of the desiderata in Baco n's Advancement of Learning, a cohort of seventeenth-century philosophers, scientists, schoolmasters, clergymen and virtuosi attempted to devise artificial languages that would immediately represent the order of thought. This was believed directly to represent the order of things and to be a universal characteristic of the human mind. Language, Mind and Nature is a 2007 text which fully reconstructs this artificial language movement. In so doing, it reveals a great deal about the beliefs and activities of those who sought to reform learning in seventeenth-century England. Artificial languages straddle occult, religious and proto-scientific approaches to representation and communication, and suggest that much of the so-called 'new philosophy' was not very new at all. This study broke important ground within its field, and will interest anyone concerned with early modern intellectual history or with the history of linguistic thought in general.EAN: 9780521294133Package Dimensions: Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.9479877266 Pounds, Width: 0.72 Inches Show more