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Diagrams, visual imagination, and continuity in Peirce's philosophy of mathematics / Vitaly Kiryushchenko.

9783031232459 electronic book
3031232453 electronic book
3031232445
9783031232442

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.

English

1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

10.1007/978-3-031-23245-9 doi

QA8.4 .K57 2023

510.1

This book is about the relationship between necessary reasoning and visual experience in Charles S. Peirces 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 Peirces 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 Peirces 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.

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