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The aim of this paper is to show that Leibniz’s contribution to what we may call today the computational conception of reason must be inscribed in three different roots: 1) the combinatory tradition coming from the XIII century, 2) XVII century attempts at constructing an artificial universal and philosophical language, and 3) the Hobbesian conception of reason.
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Pombo, O. (2010). Three Roots for Leibniz’s Contribution to the Computational Conception of Reason. In: Ferreira, F., Löwe, B., Mayordomo, E., Mendes Gomes, L. (eds) Programs, Proofs, Processes. CiE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13962-8_39
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