TY - JOUR
T1 - Dimensions of Peircean diagrammaticality
AU - Stjernfelt, Frederik
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - Taking its point of departure in the origin of the notions of "diagram" and "iconicity" in Peirce's philosophy of logic, this paper reviews and discusses a series of dimensions along which such diagrams may be compared, measured and subdivided: diagrams versus images and metaphors, operational versus optimal iconicity in diagrams, diagram tokens versus diagram types, diagrams as general signs; corollarial versus theorematic diagram reasoning; pure versus applied diagrams; logic diagrams versus diagrams facilitating logical inferences; continuous versus discontinuous diagrams; diagrams in non-deductive reasoning. Most of these developments occur in the mature Peirce after the turn of the century and thus form an important part of his mature semiotics - yet, they do not relate in any simple or straight-forward manner to his attempts at enlarging his combinatorial semiotics from its bases in the three-trichotomy theory of the 1903 Syllabus over the six-trichotomy theory of 1904-1906 to the sketchlike ten-trichotomy version of 1908, where diagrams rarely figure in the names of sign-types discussed - why.
AB - Taking its point of departure in the origin of the notions of "diagram" and "iconicity" in Peirce's philosophy of logic, this paper reviews and discusses a series of dimensions along which such diagrams may be compared, measured and subdivided: diagrams versus images and metaphors, operational versus optimal iconicity in diagrams, diagram tokens versus diagram types, diagrams as general signs; corollarial versus theorematic diagram reasoning; pure versus applied diagrams; logic diagrams versus diagrams facilitating logical inferences; continuous versus discontinuous diagrams; diagrams in non-deductive reasoning. Most of these developments occur in the mature Peirce after the turn of the century and thus form an important part of his mature semiotics - yet, they do not relate in any simple or straight-forward manner to his attempts at enlarging his combinatorial semiotics from its bases in the three-trichotomy theory of the 1903 Syllabus over the six-trichotomy theory of 1904-1906 to the sketchlike ten-trichotomy version of 1908, where diagrams rarely figure in the names of sign-types discussed - why.
KW - Diagrams
KW - Peirce
KW - Semiotics
KW - Extended Theory of Signs
KW - diagrams
KW - semiotics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063383609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/sem-2018-0119
DO - 10.1515/sem-2018-0119
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0037-1998
VL - 2019
SP - 301
EP - 331
JO - Semiotica
JF - Semiotica
IS - 228
ER -