#symbolic

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. ↗

— Michael Graves

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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. ↗

— Alex Haley

#just #people #roots #saga #symbolic

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit. ↗

— Kit Williams

#circle #closely #dog #impossible #interconnected

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

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The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#body #born #genre #head #her

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#between #both #complicity #insofar #remain

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#almost #deeper #eat #every #food