Byline: Lorenzo De Piccoli
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A Genealogy of Freudenthal’s Lincos, Part I: Looking up from the ruins of Babel
This article is the first part of a two-part series, aiming to provide a short introduction to the intellectual history and genealogy of Hans Freudenthal’s Lingua Cosmica. This first part aims to describe the many predecessors to Lincos, from the various attempts to create a “philosophical language” in the 17th century to the rise of…