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The Beauty of Graphs

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2018)

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The beauty of logical graphs consists in many facets, including notational simplicity, multi-modality and normativity. This paper aims at understanding the nature of Peirce’s graphical method and its implications to philosophy of logic.

A. -V. Pietarinen—Supported by the Estonian Research Council’s Personal Research Grant PUT 1305 and Nazarbayev University’s Social Policy Grant 2018–2019. My thanks to Francesco Bellucci for comments.

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  1. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

  2. Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

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  1. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    Peter Chapman

  2. University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

    Gem Stapleton

  3. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Amirouche Moktefi

  4. Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA, USA

    Sarah Perez-Kriz

  5. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Francesco Bellucci

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Pietarinen, AV. (2018). The Beauty of Graphs. In: Chapman, P., Stapleton, G., Moktefi, A., Perez-Kriz, S., Bellucci, F. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10871. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_2

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