The Graphic-Linguistic DistinctionExploring Alternatives

  • Authors:
  • Atsushi Shimojima

  • Affiliations:
  • Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahi, Tatsunokuchi, Nomi, 923-1292 Ishikawa, Japan (E-mail: ashimoji@jaist.ac.jp)

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence Review
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

What properties, if any, distinguish graphical representations fromlinguistic representations? This paper looks for answers in the literatureof philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology, andextracts seven alternative binary classifications of representations thatmay characterize the graphic-linguistic boundary. We assess eachalternative by two standards: (a) whether it extensionally fits the graphic-linguistic distinction, and (b) how far it explains the properties commonlyattributed to graphic representations but not to linguistic ones.