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9. Pattern language and space syntax: Alexander, Chomsky, Peirce and Wittgenstein

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Thinking with Diagrams
This chapter is in the book Thinking with Diagrams
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Thinking and diagrams – An introduction 1
  4. I. What is a diagram and how does it function?
  5. 1. On the “thing-ness” of diagrams 23
  6. 2. The role of diagrams in abductive reasoning 57
  7. 3. Behind the diagrams: cognitive issues and open problems 77
  8. 4. Diagrammatic problem solving 103
  9. 5. Is there a general diagram concept? 121
  10. 6. The diagrammatic nature of maps 139
  11. II. Diagrammatic scenes
  12. 7. Is there a diagrammatic impulse with Plato? ‘Quasi-diagrammatic-scenes’ in Plato’s philosophy 163
  13. 8. The diagram as board game: Semiotic discoveries in Alfonso the Wise’s Book of Games (1283 CE) – with some observations as to Gudea as Architect (2000 BCE) 179
  14. 9. Pattern language and space syntax: Alexander, Chomsky, Peirce and Wittgenstein 209
  15. References 225
  16. Index of names 237
  17. Index of subjects 241
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503757-010

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Thinking and diagrams – An introduction 1
  4. I. What is a diagram and how does it function?
  5. 1. On the “thing-ness” of diagrams 23
  6. 2. The role of diagrams in abductive reasoning 57
  7. 3. Behind the diagrams: cognitive issues and open problems 77
  8. 4. Diagrammatic problem solving 103
  9. 5. Is there a general diagram concept? 121
  10. 6. The diagrammatic nature of maps 139
  11. II. Diagrammatic scenes
  12. 7. Is there a diagrammatic impulse with Plato? ‘Quasi-diagrammatic-scenes’ in Plato’s philosophy 163
  13. 8. The diagram as board game: Semiotic discoveries in Alfonso the Wise’s Book of Games (1283 CE) – with some observations as to Gudea as Architect (2000 BCE) 179
  14. 9. Pattern language and space syntax: Alexander, Chomsky, Peirce and Wittgenstein 209
  15. References 225
  16. Index of names 237
  17. Index of subjects 241
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