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Thinking with Diagrams - The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition (Hardcover)
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Thinking with Diagrams - The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition (Hardcover)
Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
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Diagrammatic reasoning is crucial for human cognition. It is hard
to think of any forms of science or knowledge without the
"intermediary world" of diagrams and diagrammatic representation in
thought experiments and/or processes, manifested in forms as divers
as notes, tables, schemata, graphs, drawings and maps. Despite
their phenomenological and structural-functional differences, these
forms of representation share a number of important attributes and
epistemic functions. Combining aspects of linguistic and pictorial
symbolism, diagrams go beyond the traditional distinction between
language and image. They do not only represent, yet intervene in
what is represented. Their spatiality, materiality and operativity
establish a dynamic tool to exteriorize thinking, thus contributing
to the idea of the extended mind. They foster imagination and
problem solving, facilitate orientation in knowledge spaces and the
discovery of unsuspected relationships. How can the diagrammatic
nature of cognitive and knowledge practices be theorized
historically as well as systematically? This is what this volume
explores by investigating the semiotic dimension of diagrams as to
knowledge, information and reasoning, e.g., the 'thing-ness' of
diagrams in the history of art, the range of diagrammatic reasoning
in logic, mathematics, philosophy and the sciences in general,
including the knowledge function of maps.
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