"I feel that controversies can never be finished, nor silence imposed upon the Sects, unless we give up complicated reasonings in favour of simple calculations, words of vague and uncertain meaning in favour of fixed symbols [characteres]. Thus it will appear that 'every paralogism is nothing but an error of calculation. When controversies arise, there will be no more necessity for disputation between two philosophers than between two accountants. Nothing will be needed but that they should take pen in hand, sit down with their counting-tables and (having summoned a friend, if they like) say to one another: Let us calculate.'"
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, De Scientia Universali seu Calculo Philosophico (c. 1680) as quoted by Robert Latta, Introduction, Leibniz, The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings (1898) Tr. Robert Latta
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