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Some Pictures are Worth 2[aleph]0 Sentences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

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The cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words vastly underestimates the expressive power of many pictures and diagrams. In this note we show that even a simple map such as the outline of Manhattan Island, accompanied by a pointer marking North, implies a vast infinity of true statements.

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Research Article
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© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2000