ABSTRACT
'Man bites dog' does not mean the same as 'dog bites man'. The introduction of succession - temporal and spatial order - is an essential quality which alters the meaning of the unaltered words: bite/ dog/man. The ideogram for 'horse',a and the alphabetic, 'horse'/ have a historic similarity because both assume, 'understand', and therefore leave out a precedent phrase or phrases between 'horse and ideogram' and the 'visual image'. There is similarly something between 'visual image' and 'thing-in-itself' - what I have called by the meaningless term, 'a-element'.
