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    A universal characteristic (ideal language) in which all human concepts are perfectly represented is constructible.

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    • 1.All human ideas can be resolved into a few primitive concepts.
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    • 2.Symbols can be assigned to primitive concepts.
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    • 3.Derivative concepts can be represented by combinations of those symbols.
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    • 1.Gödel's incompleteness theorems demonstrate that any sufficiently expressive formal system contains truths that cannot be derived within that system.
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    • 2.A universal characteristic capable of representing all human concepts would require sufficient expressive power to be subject to Gödelian incompleteness.
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    • 3.Therefore, no constructible formal system can perfectly and completely represent all human conceptual truths through derivation alone.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that the meaning of any symbol is not intrinsic but constituted by its use within a form of life.
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    • 2.Assigning symbols to primitive concepts cannot fix their meaning independently of the open-ended, context-sensitive practices in which those symbols are deployed.
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    • 3.A universal characteristic that presupposes fixed, context-independent symbol-concept mappings therefore rests on an incoherent account of linguistic representation.
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    According to Leibniz, natural language, despite its powerful resources for communication, often makes reasoning obscure since it is an imperfect mirror of intelligible thoughts. As a result, it is often difficult to reason with the apparatus of natural language, “since it is full of innumerable equivocations” (On the Universal Science: Characteristic (undated); G VII, 205/S 18). Perhaps this is because of his view that the terms of natural language stand for complex, or derivative, concepts—conc
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