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David Diringer in The Alphabet . By contrast,
pictographic writing tends to unite the senses and
semantics in a kind of gestalt. Only the visual
sense has the properties of continuity, uniformity
and connectedness that are assumed in Euclidean
space. Only the visual sense can create the
impression of a continuum. Alex Leighton has
said, “To the blind all things are sudden.” To
touch and hearing each moment is unique, but to
the sense of sight the world is uniform and
continuous and connected. These are the
properties of pictorial space which we often
confuse with rationality.