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- Title
Diagrams, iconicity, and abductive discovery.
- Authors
Paavola, Sami
- Abstract
In this article, the role of abductive reasoning within Peirce's diagrammatic reasoning is discussed. Both abduction and diagrammatic reasoning bring in elements of discovery but it is not clear if abduction should be a part of a fully developed diagrammatic system or not for Peirce. This relates to Peirce's way of interpreting abduction in his later writings. Iconicity and perceptual elements as a basis for discoveries are analyzed, both in deductive and abductive reasoning. At the end, the role of modern ideas of distributed cognition applied to the Peircean scheme is shortly delineated.
- Subjects
CHARTS, diagrams, etc.; ABDUCTION (Logic); DISTRIBUTED cognition; ICONICITY (Linguistics); MODERN logic; SEMIOTICS
- Publication
Semiotica, 2011, Vol 2011, Issue 186, p297
- ISSN
0037-1998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/semi.2011.057