Some pictures are worth 2א0 sentences

Philosophy

Volumn 75, Issue 293, 2000, Pages 377-381

  Kitcher, Philip ^a   Varzi, Achille ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

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EID: 0001244977     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031819100000450     Document Type: Review

References (3)

1. On the link between linguistic vagueness and geographic ontology see e.g Taylor & Francis P. A. Burrough and A. U. Frank (eds), Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries (London: Taylor & Francis, 1996)
2. This is the idea behind the semantics for formal maps outlined in R Casati and A. C. Varziarts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), ch. 11
3. We would like to thank Laura Perini for many helpful conversations about the semantics of maps and pictures. Perini's own views are rather different from those expressed here, and her innocence of our errors will be clear once her own research on the topic is published the semantics of maps and pictures. Perini's own views are rather different from those expressed here, and her innocence of our errors will be clear once her own research on the topic is published