@inbook{fdb90683f5df4307a249f0b0b1332bbb,
title = "Existential Graphs: History and Interpretation",
abstract = "Existential graphs are a notation for first-order logic (alpha and beta departments) and higher-order logics (gamma department) that Charles S. Peirce created in 1896. This chapter surveys the evolution of Peirce{\textquoteright}s notational experiments with graphical notations, from his work of the early 1880s up to the discovery of existential graphs in 1896 and beyond. The chapter explains the main notational differences between Peirce{\textquoteright}s logical graphs, early and late, including his algebraical systems, by means of two pairs of notational parameters, “linearity/non-linearity” and “type- / occurrence-referentiality,” and shows how Peirce was able to maintain the expressivity of his algebraical systems while abandoning linearity and type-referentiality in the logical graphs.",
keywords = "Charles S. Peirce, entitative graphs, existential graphs, logical notations, quantification, Logical notations, Quantification, Existential graphs, Entitative graphs",
author = "Francesco Bellucci and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Oxford University Press 2024. All rights reserved.",
year = "2024",
month = feb,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197548561.013.16",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780197548561",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "240--260",
editor = "{de Waal}, Cornelis",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}