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Some Pictures are Worth 2[aleph]0 Sentences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

Philip Kitcher  and
Achille Varzi
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Abstract

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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 377 - 381
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2000

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