The combinatory work of The combinatory work of as described and further theorized by in his early text, De Arte Combinatoria of 1666.

ars combinatoria

The main idea behind the text is that of an alphabet of human thought, which is attributed to Descartes. All concepts are nothing but combinations of a relatively small number of simple concepts, just as words are combinations of letters. All truths may be expressed as appropriate combinations of concepts, which can in turn be decomposed into simple ideas, rendering the analysis much easier. Therefore, this alphabet would provide a logic of invention, opposed to that of demonstration which was known so far. Since all sentences are composed of a subject and a predicate, one might…

References

  • wikipedia: De-Arte-Combinatoria

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