A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language.

From Donald's perspective, these external symbolic systems have allowed for the functional reorganization of the human mind in how it deals with the world.

In his view the city is considered as a communicative system, analogous to the language and to other symbolic systems.

Miles hopes her findings will help ascertain how human symbolic systems may have evolved and developed.

One thing she said is to remember that psychopaths have their own symbolic system and it may not be like other people's.

The historical event, therefore, becomes a relation between a given symbolic system projected by a cultural scheme and a certain happening.

"She becomes a walking representation of Mexico's history, folklore, symbolic systems and dominant discourses."

In fact, shift spaces and symbolic dynamical systems are often considered synonyms.

Thus differences between meanings structure our perception; there is no real chair except insofar as we are manipulating symbolic systems.

By contrast, other possible symbolic systems such as information signs, painting, maps, and mathematics often do not require prior knowledge of a spoken language.