UID:
almahu_9949500740702882
Format:
X, 172 p. 1 illus.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
ISBN:
9783031232459
Series Statement:
Mathematics in Mind,
Content:
This book is about the relationship between necessary reasoning and visual experience in Charles S. Peirce's mathematical philosophy. It presents mathematics as a science that presupposes a special imaginative connection between our responsiveness to reasons and our most fundamental perceptual intuitions about space and time. Central to this view on the nature of mathematics is Peirce's idea of diagrammatic reasoning. In practicing this kind of reasoning, one treats diagrams not simply as external auxiliary tools, but rather as immediate visualizations of the very process of the reasoning itself. Thus conceived, one's capacity to diagram their thought reveals a set of characteristics common to ordinary language, visual perception, and necessary mathematical reasoning. The book offers an original synthetic approach that allows tracing the roots of Peirce's conception of a diagram in certain patterns of interrelation between his semiotics, his pragmaticist philosophy, his logical and mathematical ideas, bits and pieces of his biography, his personal intellectual predispositions, and his scientific practice as an applied mathematician.
Note:
1. Introduction -- 2. Meritocratism, Errors, and the Community of Inquiry -- 3. Logic and Mathematics -- 4. Peirce's Transcendental Deduction -- 5. Sign Relation. - 6 One, Two, Three -- 7. Iconicity and Novelty -- 8. The General and the Particular -- 9. Diagrams Between Images and Schema -- 10. Existential Graphs -- 11. Iconicity, Similarity, and Habitual Action -- 12. Mapping Philosophy -- 13. L'Image-Mouvement, Mathematically Sublime, and the Perception of Totality -- 14. The Metaphysics of Continuity -- 15. Conclusion. .
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031232442
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031232466
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783031232473
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-23245-9
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23245-9
