The Representation of Ideas

The Representation of Ideas

"For an idea to exist we must have words to express it" (Wilcox). This statement has been disputed amongst my 10th grade English class; I personally believe said statement to be false. Although, in court lawyers only need to find one counter argument to prove something wrong, I have thought up of numerous arguments to counter this statement.

Have you ever heard the axiom "a picture's worth a thousand words"? I find that you can grasp the concept of most pictures without a caption of any sort. The first picture that comes to my mind is the one of a group of dogs playing cards. You can look at this picture and know what's happening without being told. Another way to put this is observation versus inference. This is something that most people learn in science class at some point in time. After making observations of something you make an inference based upon what you gather using your five senses. These two concepts show that you can tell what is happening without having to read it through words.

Pictures may be one thing, but to see them in motion, or better yet, to see things in real life would make an idea clearer and easier to understand. When looking at an item, such as a chair, you cannot argue whether it exists or not. Just because you don't have words to describe it does not diminish its existence. A chair will still exist even if