The Logical Status of Diagrams
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- Author: Sun-Joo Shin, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date Published: March 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521102773
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Diagrams are widely used in reasoning about problems in physics, mathematics and logic, but have traditionally been considered to be only heuristic tools and not valid elements of mathematical proofs. This book challenges this prejudice against visualisation in the history of logic and mathematics and provides a formal foundation for work on natural reasoning in a visual mode. The author presents Venn diagrams as a formal system of representation equipped with its own syntax and semantics and specifies rules of transformation that make this system sound and complete. The system is then extended to the equivalent of a first-order monadic language. The soundness of these diagrammatic systems refutes the contention that graphical representation is misleading in reasoning. The validity of the transformation rules ensures that the correct application of the rules will not lead to fallacies. The book concludes with a discussion of some fundamental differences between graphical systems and linguistic systems. This groundbreaking work will have important influence on research in logic, philosophy and knowledge representation.
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- Date Published: March 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521102773
- length: 212 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.32kg
- contains: 148 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
3. Venn-I
4. Venn-II
5. Venn-II and L0
6. Diagrammatic versus linguistic representation
7. Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index.
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