Ramon Llull

Ramon Llull was a mathematician, polymath, philosopher, logician, writer and mystic from the Kingdom of Majorca. He is credited with writing the first major work of Catalan literature.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull Recently surfaced manuscripts show his work to have predated by several centuries prominent work on election theory. He is also considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Leibniz.{ The History of Philosophy, Vol. IV: Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Leibniz by Frederick C. Copleston (1958). } via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_LlullRamon Llull (1232–1316) is an amazing figure in the field of philosophy during the Middle Ages. He is currently recognized as the author of Ars Magna, a combining logical system to discover the truth, conceived as an instrument to be used in interfaith dialogue to convert infidels.Ramon Llull (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Throughout Llull’s enormous production of some 260 works on every subject imaginable, he never tires of reminding the reader that the work they are reading is based on the Art, or recommending it for a deeper comprehension of the subject under discussion, and this even in works that might strike one as purely literary. For example in his rst novel, Blaquerna, he cites the Ars compendiosa inveniendi veritatem four times, and in his other novel, Felix, he similarly cites the Ars demonstrativa four times. Even in a supposedly purely mystical work such as the Book of the Lover and Beloved, although not cited explicitly, the Art is present more and more as the work progresses, and it is followed by an Art of contemplation, as a kind of how-to-do-it manual.33 In short, it forms the backbone of all his other works.The Art and Logic of Ramon Llull – A User's Guide | Brillbrill.com › view › title by A Bonner · ‎2007 · ‎Cited by 116Theology / MetaphysicsFor Ramon Llull, God necessarily exists, and he is the beginning of all existing things. However, under the influence of the negative theology proposed by Dionysius the Areopagite, Llull considers God to be incomprehensible due to the limitations of human nature to understand Him. This inability establishes an initial difficulty with general knowledge, for there would be no means to access the ultimate source of existence, truth, and knowledge, according to Llull’s ideas.The means by which this difficulty is solved, according to Llull, is to recognize the cognitive value of the predicates that describe the positive qualities of the things created by God as a reflection of the divine qualities, thus serving as a way to know God by his attributes.Media
* Anthony Bonner (ed.), Doctor illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader, Princeton University Press, 1993.{ For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an affordable format, these works serve as an introduction to the life and writings of the Catalan (properly, Majorcan) philosopher, mystic, and theologian who lived from 1232 to 1316. Founder of a school of Arabic and other languages, Llull was also a poet and novelist and one of the creators of literary Catalan. } Amazon.com.
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TOSF (Catalan: [rəˈmoɲ ˈʎuʎ]; c. 1232 – c. 1315/16). Ramon Llull (also called Raymond Lully or Raymond Lull; in Latin, Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius)Ramon Llull (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Early computing; Early modern logic theory; Logician