Can we fully answer the “Biggest Questions Ever Asked”?
Below, we, the Research Team of the Syncritic Institute, present the greatest intellectual achievement of mankind so far – an arithmetic philosophical language in which we can unequivocally determine the truth or falsehood of all general notions and their real meaning.
This universal method of speaking, knowing and thinking was already known to some extent (unknown to us today) by the Pythagoreans and Plato, but it was part of their teachings transmitted only orally (the so-called unwritten teachings, agrapha dogmata). Plato once tried to use this method in his lectures, but he was not understood by his audience:
“Such was the condition, as Aristotle used often to relate, of most of the audience that attended Plato’s lectures on the Good. They came, he used to say, every one of them, in the conviction that they would get from the lectures some one or other of the things that the world calls good; riches or health, or strength, in fine, some extraordinary gift of fortune. But when they found that Plato’s Reasonings were of sciences and numbers, and geometry, and astronomy, and of good and unity as predicates of the finite, methinks their disenchantment was complete. The result was that some of them sneered at the thing, while others vilified it” [i].
In the following centuries such thinkers as the great medieval logician Ramon Llull (or Lullus, 1232 – 1315), who is now considered to be the forerunner of the concept of artificial intelligence[ii] (albeit his intelligence was quite genuine and real), dreamed about the creation of a universal method of speaking and thinking and tried to create it. The famous historian of medieval philosophy, Etienne Gilson, wrote about Llull and his famous Ars Magna et