Neo Ideograms

I say “again” because I think I’ve already made a post on synecdoche. Anyway, here is my latest. I don’t like the word “synecdoche” — it’s from Greek and I don’t think the roots of the word add up to the intended meaning very well: “together, out, seem,” or something like that. I think the term obscures the meaning and makes it less accessible — it sounds like something highfalutin and hard. But it is just referring to a part of something to mean the whole. “Partforwhole” would be better! I use the device all frequently in ids. It is a way of abbreviating and conveying the meaning compactly.

The medium is the message. The point here is, of course and as always, the ideograms.

Ids like this occur to me spontaneously as I read or listen.

I have over 500 posts on my neoideogram site, many of which include substantial explanations. This post https://neoideograms.com/2016/12/04/leibniz-had-the-idea/ gets at something fundamental.

Here’s a little more addressed to you

Ids are not just a different way of writing. They are a way of representing thoughts. For me they entail a stronger visual imagery aspect to thought. See below where “it has good aspects and bad aspects” is conveyed in one image. This is what (automatically) occurred to me along with the verbal thought. It is a paraideographic image, a diagram using ids as constituents. Notice I dispense with “it has” and “aspects” (points) — they are implicit. The idea shown in the 2nd item is: “it doesn’t matter” is semantically equal to “it is (all) the same.” And the last one, in which I visually conceptualize the idea that “no” and “yes” are tools of control works for me — it is useful.