Jorge Luis Borges described an interesting ontology for animals attributed to the Chinese encyclopaedia Celestial Empire of Benevolent Knowledge. This appeared in the essay ‘The Analytical Language of John Wilkins’ in Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952, (1964).

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