Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. A manuscript of Leibniz on the use of characters vii
4. Foreword ix
5. 1. Language and money 1
6. 2. Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke and Descartes on signs, memory and reasoning 31
7. 3. Signs and thought in Leibniz's Paris Notes 47
8. 4. Leibniz's early views on definitions 61
9. 5. On knowing truths of reason 81
10. 6. Reason and the mysteries of faith 93
11. 7. About the idea of a generative grammar in Leibniz 125
12. Appendix: Leibniz's texts on language, signs and thought 145
13. 1. On the demonstration of primary propositions (1671/2) 147
14. 2. The analysis of languages (1678) 161
15. 3. A geometric characteristic (1679) 167
16. 4. Verbal characteristic (1680, approximately) 175
17. 5. Thought, signs, and the foundations of logic (after 1684) 181
18. 6. On the connection between words and things (undated) 189
19. Bibliography 191
20. Index 197