219 works selected for the 40 candidate questions. Selections approved by Ben Breen, 29 September 2026. Arguments are unverified. Quotations were chosen by machine and are unchecked.
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c. 8 CEOvidOvid,MetamorphosesLatinFictionFull text
- Q39Can love for an artificial being remain genuine after its artificial nature is known?
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- Q39Can love for an artificial being remain genuine after its artificial nature is known?
1614NapierNapier,Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis DescriptioLatinTreatiseFull text
- Q24Does using calculating devices weaken the ability to calculate without them?
No. Logarithms spare calculators the tedium of long multiplications and divisions and the slippery errors they cause.
- Q24Does using calculating devices weaken the ability to calculate without them?
1620BaconBacon,Novum OrganumLatinTreatiseFull text
- Q30Should technological invention be understood as carrying out a divine purpose?
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- Q30Should technological invention be understood as carrying out a divine purpose?
1671LeibnizLeibniz,Description of his calculating machineLatinOtherNo text yet
- Q24Does using calculating devices weaken the ability to calculate without them?
No. It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in calculation that could be given to anyone else if machines were used.
- Q24Does using calculating devices weaken the ability to calculate without them?
1759WolffWolff,Theory of GenerationLatinTreatiseFull text
Caspar Friedrich Wolff
Theoria generationis
Latin · Treatise
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Open source →- Q09Can the development of an organism from an egg be explained as the operation of a machine?
No. Argues against preformation that the embryo forms by epigenesis from unorganized matter, and attributes the forming to an essential force (vis essentialis) rather than to a pre-built mechanism.
- Q09Can the development of an organism from an egg be explained as the operation of a machine?
1890LeibnizLeibniz,On the Characteristic Art for Perfecting the Sciences Founded on ReasonLatinEssayFull text
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
De arte characteristica ad perficiendas scientias ratione nitentes
Latin · Essay
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Open source →- Q10Can a fixed procedure for reasoning settle a disagreement when the participants accept the same premises?
Yes. Proposes a universal symbolic calculus so that disputants could settle a disagreement by sitting down and saying 'let us calculate'.
- Q10Can a fixed procedure for reasoning settle a disagreement when the participants accept the same premises?