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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
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Subject: Re: Language as Technology: A Phenomenological Study
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Date: 26 Mar 92 22:33:19 GMT
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In article <1992Mar26.201033.24948@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>  I'm not sure what you mean by analog elements in a symbolic model.  The
>symbols themselves are surely digital.  What they represent need not be.
>My point was that the symbols are largely possible because of the digital
>nature of language, which make the symbol set arbitrarily extensible.

Maps and charts make heavy use of symbols which are themselves analog.
For instance, the bars on a bar chart are, or can be, analog symbols
representing continuous quantities.

However, I think I understand what you're getting at, now.


