Re: Wilkins' philosophical language in the news

Tim May wrote at 2003-06-30 19:36:32 (+0100)
 > Christophe Grandsire wrote at 2003-06-30 12:13:53 (+0200)
 >  > En réponse à Tim May :
 >  > >[1]  Well, _relatively_ famous.  Borges wrote an essay about it, and
 >  > >it's been mentioned here more than once.
 >  >
 >  > Well, I knew the Caractéristique Universelle of Leibniz, which is
 >  > based on equivalent principles, but this one I don't remember
 >  > hearing about it.
 >  >
 > There's a translation of Borges's essay here:
 > http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html
 >
Further to this, I'v found a rather nice article about the language
here:

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/wavelength/wave14/butler.html