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What Are Rules for? A Carroll-Peirce Comparison

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2021)

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Unlike their predecessors, Lewis Carroll and Charles S. Peirce introduced rules to manipulate diagrams. As such, they opened the way to a formal view of diagrams. However, their motivations seem different, and even opposite: Pierce’s rules are present for the purposes of analysis while Carroll’s rules enable an epistemological strategy to ease calculus.

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  1. Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Amirouche Moktefi

  2. School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Reetu Bhattacharjee

  3. Department of Mathematics, Mandsaur University, Mandsaur, India

    Reetu Bhattacharjee

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  1. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Amrita Basu

  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  3. Lancaster University in Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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  4. Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia

    Catherine Legg

  5. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Emmanuel Manalo

  6. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil

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Moktefi, A., Bhattacharjee, R. (2021). What Are Rules for? A Carroll-Peirce Comparison. In: Basu, A., Stapleton, G., Linker, S., Legg, C., Manalo, E., Viana, P. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12909. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86062-2_24

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