real character

…In response to this, Comenius joined the movement, seeking a radical solution to improve the fact that language education since the Middle Ages "merely teaches words by heart, without teaching the essence of things and concepts." Meanwhile, in England, F. Bacon focused on Chinese characters, which show a close connection between symbols and meanings, and J. Wilkins then devised a "symbol system in which the characters themselves can express concepts like Chinese characters = real characters," and published a detailed proposal for an artificial language in "Essays Concerning True Characters and Philosophical Languages" (1668). The Royal Society, which had been founded at that time, also supported this proposal. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "real character" is listed below.

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…これに呼応してコメニウスは，中世以来の言語教育が〈単に言葉を暗記させるだけで事物や概念の本質を学ばせていない〉点を改善する抜本策を人工言語に求め，この運動に参加した。一方イギリスでは，F.ベーコンが記号と意味の緊密な結合を示す漢字に着目し，次いでJ.ウィルキンズは〈漢字のように文字自体がその概念を表現しうる記号体系＝真の文字real character〉を考案，詳細を極めた人工言語案《真の文字と哲学的言語についてのエッセー》(1668)を公にした。当時発足したローヤル･ソサエティも，この提案を支援した。…

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