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A circle doesn't usually convey very many ideas, though. Words can.
by everdrive 6y ago
A circle doesn't usually convey very many ideas, though. Words can.
- C4stor 6y ago◯ ◯ ◠
- robenkleene 6y agoCircles are building blocks of pictures, which can convey ideas, just like words are a building blocks of sentences.
- Cogito 6y agoA circle has a fixed level of abstraction, and representing a complex thought requires many circles. Importantly, in a complex image each individual circle doesn't convey much information, it's the composition that encodes any information. Words have a near arbitrary level of abstraction, so that single words can convey immense collections of ideas, so much so that new words can be defined that represent the ideas that would otherwise take many words to express.