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# Catalogue record: 24925 — De characteribus et de arte characteristica
# Incipit: Characterem voco, notam visibilem cogitationes repraesentantem. | Ars
# Date: 1688
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA VI,4 N. 190
# Other printings: Bodemann, Die Leibniz-Handschriften, 1895, S.80-81.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=24925&katnr=56190
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/00068619
# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Philosophie LH 4, 5, 6
# Folios: Bl. 16 (from the shelfmark LH 4, 5, 6c Bl. 16): 2 pages, canvases 31–32, page ids 00068619:0031 to 00068619:0032
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068619&page=31
# Lines: 28 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.72
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Characterem voco, notam Ccogitationes  repraesentantem
Ars characteristica est ars ita formandi atque ordinandi characteres ut
referant cogitationes,
seu ut eam inter se habeant recationem, quam
cogitationes inter se habent.
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expressio est aa dobt aggregatum claracterum
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rem quae exprimitur repraetentantium.
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ex expressionum haec est: ut ex i teri quarum
erum ideis componitur rei exprimendae idea exmarum
rerum characteribus componatur rei expressio

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