A physical symbol system (also called a formal system) takes physical patterns (symbols), combining them into structures (expressions) and manipulating...

For example, the physical quantity mass, symbol m, can be quantified as m=n kg, where n is the numerical value and kg is the unit symbol (for kilogram)...

defined by seven physical constants being given exact numerical values in terms of the units. In the modern form of the International System of Units (SI)...

a physical symbol system. Symbols within some data systems may be persistent or not. Hence, the sounds of human speech are non-persistent symbols because...

number of physical quantities. The first table lists the fundamental quantities used in the International System of Units to define the physical dimension...

simulate it." Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon's physical symbol system hypothesis: "A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means of general...

framed this as a philosophical position, the physical symbol system hypothesis: "A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general...

internal “automatic” symbol manipulation — Haugeland (1985, p. 113) This is very similar to the sufficient side of the physical symbol systems hypothesis proposed...

mathematical symbols List of mathematical uses of Latin letters Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering Physical constant Physical quantity...

of a "symbol system" relative to his defined symbol grounding problem. As defined by Harnad, a "symbol system" is "...a set of arbitrary 'physical tokens'...