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'''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage. | '''aUI''' ({{IPA-all|aui}}) is a [[Philosophical language|philosophical]], [[A priori language|a priori]] language created in the 1950s by W. John Weilgart, Ph.D. (March 9, 1913– January 26, 1981; born Johann Wolfgang Weixlgärtner,<ref name="Dr. Weilgart's Story">{{cite web |title=Dr. Weilgart's Story |url=https://auilanguage.space/Dr-weilgart/story |website=aUI – the language of space |publisher=Cosmic Communication Foundation |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> and also known as John W. Weilgart<ref name="Weilgart-LOS">{{cite book|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|title=aUI, The Language of Space|4th ed.|year=1979|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|location=Decorah, Iowa|isbn=978-0-912038-08-7}}</ref> a philosopher and psychoanalyst originally from Vienna, Austria. He described it as "the Language of Space", connoting universal communication, and published the fourth edition of the textbook in 1979;<ref name="Weilgart-LOS" /> a philosophic description of each semantic element of the language was published in 1975.<ref name="Weilgart-CEOM">{{cite book|title=Cosmic Elements of Meaning: Symbols of the Spirit's Life|last=Weilgart|first=John W.|publisher=Cosmic Communication Co.|year=1975|location=Decorah, Iowa}}</ref> | ||
As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart | As an effort toward world 'peace through understanding', it was Weilgart's goal to clarify and simplify communication. Ultimately it was his experiment in facilitating conscious thinking in that it is built from a proposed set of primitive, possibly universal elements that are designed to reflect a motivated, mnemonic relationship between symbol, sound, and meaning. In his psychotherapy work, he sometimes used client created aUI formulations to reveal possible subconscious associations to problematic concepts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reykr.livejournal.com/249204.html|title=Another Birthday Yesterday: Dr. John W. Weilgart|author=reykr|date=10 March 2006|work=LIVE JOURNAL|publisher=LiveJournal, Inc.|access-date=8 April 2012}}</ref> aUI can also be considered an experiment in applied cognitive lexical semantics, and Weilgart envisioned it serving as an international language. | ||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == |
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