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| | The Moment Before Discovery: Werner Künzel |
 | | With the "Ars combinatoria" of Raymundus Lullus, a real revolution of formalistic thinking was born, as this was the first known text-machine which was able to produce true (and, needless to say, false) declarations in a strange mechanical manner. |
 | | Lullus established tables incorporating the subjects of all areas of human wisdom, material from theology at first, but later, material of the philosophical tradition, the natural sciences, and so on. |
 | | Finally, we have again the situation Lullus had already prescribed: two partners are communicating by means of a new type of a machine, and they are solving their problems with the help of a transparent tool, a calculating tool. |
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