From Mitchell to Carus: Fourteen Years of Logical Graphs in the Making

Francesco Bellucci, Ahti Veikko Pietarinen

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    Abstract

    We analyze the steps that took Peirce from his early 1882 proposals to represent logic by graphs to the advent of the full theory of quantification in his 1896 logic of Existential Graphs.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)539-575
    Number of pages37
    JournalTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
    Volume52
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2016

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • Philosophy

    User-Defined Keywords

    • Charles S. Peirce
    • Entitative graphs
    • Existential graphs
    • Logic of relatives
    • Logical graphs
    • Oscar H. Mitchell
    • Quantification

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