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The examples from China, with their purely geometric design, would be even more confusing.
But these examples of how limiting icons are for communicating specific and clear meaning also illustrate the vast amounts of inferred knowledge that they can provide about a culture who uses them. The very fact that each culture has its own very unique way of representing this meaning (i.e. "restrooms") is evidence of this, but the specific examples can again be quite helpful in understanding the true import of cultural knowledge received through icons. The icons from Thailand reveal a people who are fairly literal minded and certainly unabashed about bodily functions. The Chinese icons represent a culture that is almost diametrically opposed on these counts; there is a marked attempt to refrain from representing the human form, while at the same time the complimentary asymmetry of the two icons is similar to other symbols of Chinese philosophy.
Though rudimentary in their ability to directly communicate meaning, icons are invaluable in their cultural communication. The American icons for male and female restrooms, quite similar to the example from Hong Kong in the text, attempts to typify men and women in the simplest terms possible, making a clear differentiation in the genders while at the same...
This is a subtle yet clear example of the meeting between egalitarian political correctness and long held contradictory beliefs that is so prevalent in American society and culture. Words could never capture the same juxtaposition so eloquently or so effortlessly; we must be thankful to icons for providing so much color and expression, if not meaning, to communication.
Explanatory paragraph: What I attempted to do in this essay was to show the benefit to the continued use of icons, despite the confusion they can sometimes cause. Specifically, I attempted to show the cultural information that could be conveyed almost instantaneously through icons that could never be put into fully adequate words. The process of writing this paper began when I first viewed the several icons mentioned and was struck with their difference and simultaneous similarity. I very quickly formulated my idea, and saw the simple structure I could use to lay out the paper, first introducing the principles of communication, then icons, then the limits of their use, and finally the benefits. My conclusion wrapped up these ideas and tied them to our own culture.
In essence, this is already an essential step towards doing everything and, even if it doesn't mean immediately doing everything, it certainly anticipates and makes doing everything plausible. On the other hand, with doing nothing, you are also more ready to embrace everything, to the degree to which you will be doing everything at a particular point in time. The emptiness provides, in fact, a necessary advantage as the capacity
Analytic Philosophy in the Western Tradition Onto-Hermeneutical Vision and Analytic Discourse: Interpretation and Reconstruction on Chinese Philosophy by Chung-Ying Cheng This is a paper on Chinese philosophy by Chung-Ying Cheng The author though acknowledges that a sense of knowledge and the analytic use of language have often been the guiding principles for the Greeks for presenting arguments and conclusions; in spite of knowing the overall vision of the truth. Thus, thanks to
Chinese philosophers differ greatly from those of the Western world in that the basis of their argument is usually based on Confucius. Later philosophers who attempt to dispel the strong influence of Confucius had to measure up to his philosophy. Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu are two such followers who attempted to change the concept by explaining that all things in nature in this world are interdependent. The leader
In spite of the fact that it never became as popular as Daoism, Confucianism was important because it was responsible for a series of reforms in the moral and political systems of China. It was only during the ruling of Dong Zhongshu that Confucianism became appreciated as China's main school of thought. The philosophy slowly but surely experienced progress and came to be one of the main systems guiding
Chinese History The Shang dynasty marked one of the earliest recorded periods of history in ancient China, for which substantial archeological evidence exists. Although Chinese culture did not necessarily flourish during the Shang, a system of writing was first developed, its characters etched on the so-called oracle bones. The Shang dynasty was a bronze-based society that extended from 1700 to 1027 BCE. The form of government practiced during the Shang was
Confucianism is not followed in strength. The modern context of this ancient philosophy was enquired into first by Max Weber. The conclusion was to include it into one of the world's major religions and it is "least conducive to capitalist development. East Asians, for their part, began to condemn this venerable tradition as they deepened their knowledge of contemporary things" (Bell; Chaibong, 2003, p. 361) in a nut shell,