Universal science

Universal science (Universalwissenschaft; scientia generalis, scientia universalis) is a branch of metaphysics. In the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the universal science is the true logic. The idea of establishing a universal science originated in the seventeenth century with philosophers Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes. Bacon and Descartes conceptualized universal science as a unified approach to collect scientific information similar to encyclopedias of universal knowledge but were unsuccessful. Leibniz extended their ideas to use logic as an "index" to order universal scientific and mathematical information as an operational system with a universal language. Plato's system of idealism, formulated using the teachings of Socrates, is a predecessor to the concept of universal science and influenced Leibniz' s views against materialism in favor of logic. It emphasizes on the first principles which appear to be the reasoning behind everything, emerging and being in state with everything. This mode of reasoning had a supporting influence on great scientists such as Boole, Frege, Cantor, Hilbert, Gödel, and Turing. All of these great minds shared a similar dream, vision or belief in a future where universal computing would eventually change everything.