SOURCE: Andresen, Julie T. “From Condillac to Condorcet: The Algebra of History.” In Progress in Linguistic Historiography: Papers From the International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, edited by Konrad Koerner, pp. 187-97. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1980.
In the essay which follows, Andresen highlights the connection between Condorcet's idea of progress and his beliefs about language, including the language of mathematics as the reduction of natural language to its purest form.
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