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title: "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-analytical-language-of-john-wilkins-epogrwis7
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analytical_Language_of_John_Wilkins
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-04-25T19:59:20.818Z
updated: 2024-04-25T19:59:19.958Z
tags: ["classification"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: ilo
---

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# The Analytical Language of John Wilkins

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A short essay by Jorge Luis Borges that critiques John Wilkins' proposal for a universal language and the representational capacity of language. Borges highlights the arbitrary nature of taxonomies and challenges our understanding of the universe through language.

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