information design
How to organize information
Location
Alphabet
Time
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I think "these are the only five" is a logically baseless assertion, but the important point is that under the condition of "for the purpose of communicating to a large number of people," there are only about five widely accepted methods at this time.
Books, too, "are meant to communicate to the masses."
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