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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- On This Edition -- Quotation Marks -- References -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Project For The 'characteristic Art' -- 2 'lullism' In The Seventeenth Century: Art Of Memory And First Steps Towards The Creation Of An Encyclopedia -- 3 The Project For The Creation Of A Universal Language -- 4 Atomism And 'immeation' -- 5 Themes From The Dac In Leibniz's Mature Philosophy -- 6 The First Two Problems And Their Solutions -- 7 The 'application' (usus) To Traditional Syllogistic 8 Singular Propositions And Some Syllogistic Rules -- 9 A Classification Of Syllogistic Moods -- 10 Useful And Useless, Valid And Invalid Moods. A General Method For Finding A Counterexample -- 11 The Influence Of Wirth (hospinianus), Pierre De La Ramée, And Thomasius -- 12 Using Numbers To Encode Concepts (and Propositions) -- 13 Finding All Possible Subjects And Predicates -- 14 Finding The Number Of All Valid Syllogistic Arguments Having A Given Proposition As Conclusion -- 15 Some Problems Concerning Variations (permutations). The 'head' Of A Set Of Variations -- 16 Atomism And Mereology A Dissertation On Combinatorial Art -- Text And Translation 1 -- Synopsis Dissertationis De Arte Combinatoria. -- Demonstratio Existentiae Dei. -- [1] Cum Deo! -- Definitiones -- Problemata. -- Probl. I. Dato Numero Et Exponente Complexiones Invenire. -- Probl. Ii. Dato Numero Complexiones Simpliciter Invenire. -- Probl. Iii. Dato Numero Classium Et Rerum In Classibus Complexiones Classium Invenire. -- Probl. Iv. Dato Numero Rerum Variationes Ordinis Invenire. -- Christus -- Probl. V. Dato Numero Rerum Variationem Situs Mere Relati Seu Vicinitatis Invenire. Probl. Vi. Dato Numero Rerum Variandarum, Quarum Aliqva Vel Aliquae Repetuntur, Variationem Ordinis Invenire. -- [69] Probl. Vii. Dato Capite Variationes Reperire. -- Probl. Viii. Variationes Alteri Dato Capiti Communes Reperire. -- Probl. Ix. Capita