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John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics

  • Edited by: Joseph L. Subbiondo
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1992
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In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain.


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I. John Wilkins (1614-1672)

Hans Aarsleff
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II. Wilkins and the 17th-century Reconciliation of Science, Religion, and Language

Its place in the seventeenth century episteme
Sidonie Clauss
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Dorothy Stimson
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Grant McColley
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Francis Christensen
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III. The Sources of Wilkins' Philosophical Language

Benjamin DeMott
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Benjamin DeMott
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Otto Funke
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David Cram
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IV. Theory and Practice in Wilkins' Philosophical Language

Vivian Salmon
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Jonathan Cohen
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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
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The verb phrase
Thomas Frank
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V. Wilkins' Classification of Reality

Clark Emery
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Sergey Semenovich Linsky
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Joseph L. Subbiondo
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Towards a comprehensive, and systematically defined, lexicon
Fredric Dolezal
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B.C. Vickery
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VI. Wilkins' Legacy

Critics and continuators
Vivian Salmon
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