[2snakes]

I do not think the written description of a dog is the same as a dog itself…

[tsss]

Maybe it is. If you think about it hard, you will find that you cannot separate the idea of dog from the word dog. The object dog can only be understood as a perception linked to that idea.

[orthoxerox]

"Ceci n'est pas un chien"

[t43562]

Nothing is the same as the dog but we probably store a lot of sensory information, emotions and images relating to dogs in our heads.