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Images, diagrams, and narratives: Charles S. Peirce's epistemological theory of mental diagrams

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Published/Copyright: August 8, 2011
Semiotica
From the journal Volume 2011 Issue 186

Abstract

Charles S. Peirce's epistemological theory of mental diagrams forms the theoretical basis of his attempt to analyze diagrammatic reasoning. Two examples, one from science and another from art, are examined to test the scope of this theory. While the first example shows how scientific diagrams form part of translation processes, similar processes are demonstrated in how paintings are received. The article attempts to connect Peirce and A. J. Greimas's theory of narrative. Relating the two proves useful in allowing Peirce's theory of the connection between the three normative sciences (Logic, Ethics, and Esthetics) to be discussed on a new basis.

Keywords:: Charles S. Peirce; Algirdas J. Greimas; narrative; diagrammatic reasoning; mental diagrams; epistemology
Published Online: 2011-08-08
Published in Print: 2011-August

© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Introduction: Diagrammatical reasoning and Peircean logic representations
  2. Images, diagrams, and narratives: Charles S. Peirce's epistemological theory of mental diagrams
  3. The fine structure of Peircean ligatures and lines of identity
  4. When is a bunch of marks on paper a diagram? Diagrams as homomorphic representations
  5. Ligatures in Peirce's existential graphs
  6. Iconic thought and diagrammatical scripture: Peirce and the Leibnizian tradition
  7. Linear notation for existential graphs
  8. Peircean Algebraic Logic and Peirce's Reduction Thesis
  9. Remarks on the iconicity and interpretation of existential graphs
  10. Cognitive conditions of diagrammatic reasoning
  11. External diagrammatization and iconic brain co-evolution
  12. Computers as medium for mathematical writing
  13. Peircean diagrams of time
  14. Space, complementarity, and “diagrammatic reasoning”
  15. Diagrams, iconicity, and abductive discovery
  16. Moving pictures of thought II: Graphs, games, and pragmaticism's proof
  17. Peirce's alpha graphs and propositional languages
  18. Peirce's tutorial on existential graphs
  19. On operational and optimal iconicity in Peirce's diagrammatology
  20. Existential graphs and proofs of pragmaticism
https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.2011.044
Keywords for this article
Charles S. Peirce; Algirdas J. Greimas; narrative; diagrammatic reasoning; mental diagrams; epistemology

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Introduction: Diagrammatical reasoning and Peircean logic representations
  2. Images, diagrams, and narratives: Charles S. Peirce's epistemological theory of mental diagrams
  3. The fine structure of Peircean ligatures and lines of identity
  4. When is a bunch of marks on paper a diagram? Diagrams as homomorphic representations
  5. Ligatures in Peirce's existential graphs
  6. Iconic thought and diagrammatical scripture: Peirce and the Leibnizian tradition
  7. Linear notation for existential graphs
  8. Peircean Algebraic Logic and Peirce's Reduction Thesis
  9. Remarks on the iconicity and interpretation of existential graphs
  10. Cognitive conditions of diagrammatic reasoning
  11. External diagrammatization and iconic brain co-evolution
  12. Computers as medium for mathematical writing
  13. Peircean diagrams of time
  14. Space, complementarity, and “diagrammatic reasoning”
  15. Diagrams, iconicity, and abductive discovery
  16. Moving pictures of thought II: Graphs, games, and pragmaticism's proof
  17. Peirce's alpha graphs and propositional languages
  18. Peirce's tutorial on existential graphs
  19. On operational and optimal iconicity in Peirce's diagrammatology
  20. Existential graphs and proofs of pragmaticism
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