Peircean diagrams of time
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Peter Øhrstrøm
Abstract
Some very good arguments can be given in favor of the Augustinean wisdom, according to which it is impossible to provide a satisfactory definition of the concept of time. However, even in the absence of a proper definition, it is possible to deal with conceptual problems regarding time. It can be done in terms of analogies and metaphors. In particular, it is attractive to make use of Peirce's diagrams by means of which various kinds of conceptual experimentation can be carried out. This paper investigates how Peircean diagrams can be used within the study of time. In particular, we discuss 1) the topological properties of time, 2) the implicative structure in tense logic, 3) the notions of open future and branching time models, and finally 4) tenselogical alternatives to branching time models.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction: Diagrammatical reasoning and Peircean logic representations
- Images, diagrams, and narratives: Charles S. Peirce's epistemological theory of mental diagrams
- The fine structure of Peircean ligatures and lines of identity
- When is a bunch of marks on paper a diagram? Diagrams as homomorphic representations
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- Iconic thought and diagrammatical scripture: Peirce and the Leibnizian tradition
- Linear notation for existential graphs
- Peircean Algebraic Logic and Peirce's Reduction Thesis
- Remarks on the iconicity and interpretation of existential graphs
- Cognitive conditions of diagrammatic reasoning
- External diagrammatization and iconic brain co-evolution
- Computers as medium for mathematical writing
- Peircean diagrams of time
- Space, complementarity, and “diagrammatic reasoning”
- Diagrams, iconicity, and abductive discovery
- Moving pictures of thought II: Graphs, games, and pragmaticism's proof
- Peirce's alpha graphs and propositional languages
- Peirce's tutorial on existential graphs
- On operational and optimal iconicity in Peirce's diagrammatology
- Existential graphs and proofs of pragmaticism
