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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

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

But this is that rare movie that transcends its role as pure entertainment to become something genuinely cathartic, even therapeutic, giving children a symbolic language with which to manage their unruliest emotions.

From Washington Post Jun. 17, 2015

If the great law of symbolic language is based upon analogy, it is clear to a demonstration that the symbols employed must be definitely applied.

From The Revelation Explained by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

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