Название: The Search for the Perfect LanguageАвтор: Umberto Eco
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год: 1995
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 402
Размер: 25,59 Мб
Язык: английский
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence.