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<7ik75v$11p$1@quine.mathcs.duq.edu>, Patrick Juola
<juola@mathcs.duq.edu> inimitably wrote:
>Well, if you have a suggestion about how to treat the differential
>universe-space problem, I'd be happy.  Just as an example -- are the
>fingers, or aren't the fingers, part of the hand?   And what is the
>part of the hand that *isn't* the fingers called?  (Similarly with
>s/fingers/wrist/)
>
>And how do you express this symbolically?


The problem seems not to arise in pictographic communication. Using
colour, lines, shading or any visual effect, you can even indicate 'that
part of the palm within 2 cm of the base of the index finger', for
which, AFAIK, there is no single word in any language.

I see a difference between 'pictographic' and 'symbolic'. What I mean by
the former is quasi-realistic representation of objects etc., as in a
strip-cartoon, whereas 'symbolic' implies a stylization, as you see on
the controls of a car or icons on a computer display.
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