The History of the Royal-Society of London 1667. The natural history of animals 1702 The natural history of Northampton-Shire. The Natural History of Oxford-Shire A Philosophical Language by John Wilkins The natural history of Stafford-shire 1686 The natural history of... Continue Reading →
Three and a half centuries before artificial intelligence renewed the problem of representing human knowledge in formal systems, Wilkins attempted something audaciously similar in ambition: to classify the world, assign its concepts determinate relationships, and construct a language capable of expressing that structure without the ambiguities of ordinary speech.
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