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symbolic language

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noun

  1. a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.


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This project delves into the autonomous region of Gagauzia, capturing its vibrant culture through traditional weaving and its symbolic language.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

Although often compared to cat’s cradle, hei is more than a children’s game; it is a symbolic language.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

For example, philosopher Hubert Dreyfus's thesis in his 1972 book What Computers Can't Do was that cognition cannot be codified in the symbolic language of computers.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2022

This symbolic language is what has become modern logic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Among ourselves, this is an allegory; and the psychologist of morals reads the whole star-writing merely as an allegorical and symbolic language in which much may be unexpressed.

From Beyond Good and Evil by Zimmern, Helen

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