TY - JOUR
T1 - Existential graphs
T2 - What a diagrammatic logic of cognition might look like
AU - Pietarinen, Ahti Veikko
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the University of Helsinki ‘Excellence in Research’ Grant (2023031, ‘Peirce’s Pragmatistic Philosophy and Its Applications’, 2006–2008, Principal Investigator A.-V. Pietarinen). Further support received from the Academy of Finland, Peking University, Sun Yat-sen University and Wuhan University. Earlier versions have been presented in Applying Peirce: International Conference on Peirce’s Thought and Its Applications, Helsinki, June 2007; Center for Logic, Language and Cognition Seminar, Peking University, August 2007; the 10th International Conference on Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, November 2008; School of Philosophy, Wuhan University, Wuhan, March 2009; Model-based Reasoning in Science Conference, Symposium on Existential Graphs, Campinas, December 2009; and in the Annual Meeting of the Korean Association for Logic, Seoul, August 2010. My thanks to Johan van Benthem, Risto Hilpinen, Jaakko Hintikka, Woosuk Park, Ju Shier, John Sowa, Zhou Beihai and Zhu Zhifang, as well as to a number of other organizers and commentators of these occasions.
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - This paper examines the contemporary philosophical and cognitive relevance of Charles Peirce's diagrammatic logic of existential graphs (EGs), the 'moving pictures of thought'. The first part brings to the fore some hitherto unknown details about the reception of EGs in the early 1900s that took place amidst the emergence of modern conceptions of symbolic logic. In the second part, philosophical aspects of EGs and their contributions to contemporary logical theory are pointed out, including the relationship between iconic logic and images, the problem of the meaning of logical constants, the cognitive economy of iconic logic, the failure of the Frege-Russell thesis, and the failure of the Language of Thought hypothesis.
AB - This paper examines the contemporary philosophical and cognitive relevance of Charles Peirce's diagrammatic logic of existential graphs (EGs), the 'moving pictures of thought'. The first part brings to the fore some hitherto unknown details about the reception of EGs in the early 1900s that took place amidst the emergence of modern conceptions of symbolic logic. In the second part, philosophical aspects of EGs and their contributions to contemporary logical theory are pointed out, including the relationship between iconic logic and images, the problem of the meaning of logical constants, the cognitive economy of iconic logic, the failure of the Frege-Russell thesis, and the failure of the Language of Thought hypothesis.
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U2 - 10.1080/01445340.2011.555506
DO - 10.1080/01445340.2011.555506
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:79961159053
SN - 0144-5340
VL - 32
SP - 265
EP - 281
JO - History and Philosophy of Logic
JF - History and Philosophy of Logic
IS - 3
ER -