Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that result are the first of humanity's intellectual artifacts. They express, they explain, and so they ratify a power of the mind. And, of course, they are artifacts in the process of becoming algorithms.


The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World (ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2000)


Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that ...

Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that ...

Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that ...

Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that ...