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Charles Sanders Peirce often emphasized the importance of iconic representations in all cognition. After addressing some general issues about the analysis of iconic representation, the paper examines the cognitive role of diagrammatic representations, and explores the implications for his theory of perception of Peirce’s claim that ideas are like composite photographs. The discussions also consider the role of imagination in cognition.
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Hookway, C. (2007). Peirce on Icons and Cognition. In: Priss, U., Polovina, S., Hill, R. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications. ICCS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4604. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73681-3_5
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