A semantic encoding system?

[Jonas Barnun]

Yeah, it's surely one of the many possibilities, and a nice idea. It's functionally similar to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. hypothesis, where glyph 'chunks' represent concepts, which are then concatenated to form bigger semantic units.

Thank you Mauro! Yes it’s exactly this, I did not know it existed. I checked the wikipedia article you sent. It’s facinatimg! And I noticed, among examples of a philosophical language, there is Wilkins’ system (a language mentioned very briefly in Borges short-story the Congress I was reading yesterday) so I zoomed in on his system and I checked the wikipedia article about the language he created, the article says:

Wilkins's "Real Character" is a constructed family of symbols, corresponding to a classification scheme developed by Wilkins and his colleagues. It was intended as a pasigraphy, in other words, to provide elementary building blocks from which could be constructed the universe's every possible thing and notion. The Real Character is not an orthography: i.e. it is not a written representation of spoken language. Instead, each symbol represents a concept directly, without (at least in the early parts of the Essay's presentation) there being any way of vocalizing it. Inspiration for this approach came in part from contemporary European accounts of the Chinese writing system, which were somewhat mistaken.

I love it! The VMS is 2 centuries earlier, I guess a philosophical language of some sort is possible, although it’s not a highly likely scenario. Are there any attempts to interpret the VMS thru this lens?

Link to the article on Wilkins’ Essay theorizing his language:

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