1	"“… the paradox is the..." “… the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.” —Søren Kierkegaard
2	Dante, Lull, Monogeneticism & Universal Characters Search for the Perfect Language, part 2
3	Dante, Lull, Monogeneticism, and Universal Characters The Perfect Language of Dante The Ars Magna of Raymond Lull The Monogenetic Hypothesis and the Mother Tongues The Perfect Language of Images
4	Dante’s Perfect Language Realized that language changes (oc/sil) The difference between speaking and actual linguistic capability is similar to langue et parole.
5	Raymond Lull Searching for Universal Truth Ars Combinatoria Ars Magna: could produce true or false propositions, but you need to know whether it’s true or false; one root of linguistic roots
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7	Monogeneticism “From Origen to Augustine, almost all of the church Fathers assumed, as a matter of incontrovertible fact, that, before the confusion, humanity’s primordial language was Hebrew” (SFPL: 74).
8	"Guillame de Postel:" Guillame de Postel: Universal language would lay the foundation for global peace; that language is Hebrew à French. Nostraticism: Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Uralic, etc, descended from a common ancestor; idea originated in Russia; rejected in the U.S. for (mostly) political reasons.
9	Athanasius Kircher Egyptian: Discovered Hieroglyphics & assumed Egyptian was the perfect language; assumed 1:1 correspondence between meaning and structure Hebrew: believed that Hebrew was the perfect language because the writing system corresponds with how sounds are made in the throat.
10	"Chinese:" Chinese: “Chinese writing was considered perfect insofar as with idiograms every element on the expression-plane corresponded to a semantic unit on the content-plane. It was precisely these one-to-one correspondences that, for Kircher, deprived Chinese writing of its potential for mystery. . . An Egyptian hieroglyph showed its superiority by its ability to summon up entire ‘texts,’ and to express complex chunks of infinitely interpretable content” (SFPL: 161).
11	"“It was this conviction..." “It was this conviction that, in the end, hieroglyphs all showed about the natural world that prevented Kircher from ever finding the right track” (pp. 156-157) Kircher’s mistake is not realizing that his hieroglyphs contained a phonetic component.
12	Sir William Jones Proto-Indo-European Hypothesis: Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit share marked similarities, therefore they descended from a common ancestor
13	Universal Characters A written character, through its form is directly linked to the nature of the universe. One to one correlation between symbol and meaning. Nothing arbitrary or conventional. Egyptian? Chinese?: language independent, a speaker of Chinese, Korean or Japanese will understand Sino-Korean characters.