Yes! Leibniz thought it would be possible to invent "a kind of alphabet of human thoughts" in which "everything can be discovered and judged by it comparison of

Yes! Leibniz thought it would be possible to invent "a kind of alphabet of human thoughts" in which "everything can be discovered and judged by it comparison of the letters of this alphabet and an analysis of the words made from them." These would be essentially arithmetic - every thought would have a numbers. This would "increase the *power of the mind much more than optical lenses strengthen the eyes and which will be as far superior to microscopes or telescopes as reason is superior to sight." This was influenced (but not reducible) to what he had been reading from Chinese philosophy. In 1679 he said it would take, "five years to complete project with a few select men." Famous last words...