Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 22 of 68
Leibniz's Characteristica Universalis
Hobbes’s “parcels” were the basic units of thought, just as symbols are basic to Newell and Simon’s Physical Symbol Systems Hypothesis. Hobbes’s ideas were furthered by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) who tried to identify an appropriate system of parcels – a logical language. Leibniz imagined writing down all the facts known to man in this language, which he called Characteristica Universalis.