Visual reasoning with diagrams /

Logic, the discipline that explores valid reasoning, does not need to be limited to a specific form of representation but should include any form as long as it allows us to draw sound conclusions from given information. The use of diagrams has a long but unequal history in logic. The golden age of d...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moktefi, Amirouche (Editor), Shin, Sun-Joo (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Heidleberg ; New York : Birkhauser, 2013.
Series:Studies in universal logic.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is a logical diagram? / Catherine Legg
  • The geometry of diagrams and the logic of syllogisms / Richard Bosley
  • A diagrammatic calculus of syllogisms / Ruggero Pagnan
  • Beyond syllogisms: Carroll's (marked) quadriliteral diagram / Amirouche Moktefi
  • A diagrammatic bridge between standard and non-standard logics: the numerical segment / Ferdinando Cavaliere
  • Diagrammatic reasoning with classes and relationships / Jorgen Fischer Nilsson
  • On the completeness of spider diagrams augmented with constands / Gem Stapleton... [et al.]. A practice-based approach to diagrams / Valeria Giardino
  • Figures, formulae, and functors / Zach Weber
  • Representation of graphs in diagrams of graph theory / Mitsuko Wate-Mizuno.