I wonder how many people are aware that Ludwig Wittgenstein preempted the logicist program of AI a full century ago. And that the problems that Wittgenstein and symbolic AI ran into were the same. And that they are now being solved.
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Replying to @bradneuberg
The Tractatus was the first attempt at defining an artificial language that would be capable of dealing with all of thought. It eventually failed (see Philosophical Investigations) due to difficulty of dealing with ambiguity, perceptual grounding, combinatorial explosion etc.
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Replying to @Plinz @bradneuberg
Wouldn’t Leibniz’s universal language count? Or do you reckon it is too different in its basic intention, or too vague and incomplete to quality as an attempt?
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Replying to @alexisgallagher @bradneuberg
I think that Leibniz had a similar idea, but Wittgenstein actually tried to pull it off.
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