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?1705 T. D'Urfey Ess. towards Theory of Intelligible World 24 It has already been translated into all the Ideal Languages with great and faithful Exactness, in each of which it has sold off near twenty Editions.

1754 J. Bate Integrity Hebrew Text 107 The Gentleman does not consider the Hebrew as an ideal Language.

1827 Inspector 2 474 Some of the systems which we shall quote, are built upon the supposition, that they express merely an ideal language, which was never spoken.

1878 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 9 67 Language, as actually used, neither conforms in its origin and growth to the natural meaning of words, nor to the agreement of mankind regarding them. An ideal language only might be constructed conformably to these principles.

1922 B. Russell in C. K. Ogden tr. L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Introd. 8 The whole function of language is to have meaning, and it only fulfils this function in proportion as it approaches to the ideal language which we postulate.

1953 G. Bergmann in E. D. Klemke Contemp. Analytic & Ling. Philos. (1983) ii. xxiv. 370 Consistently pursued, the notion of logical form leads to that of an ideal language in which logical and grammatical form coincide completely.

1973 A. Kenny Wittgenstein iv. 70 In an ideal language,..to each element of the propositional sign would correspond a single object in the world.

1997 D. Weir Anarchy & Culture iii. 89 As the ideal language of liberty, Poetry can only be created by the poet inspired and linked to the source of that ideal.

2001 J. Bennett Learning from Six Philosophers I. xvii. 312 Sleigh explains this as arising from Leibniz's..thinking that in an ideal language the only substantives would name substances—terms like ‘squareness’ and ‘wisdom’ would not occur.