Title: Revisiting Peirce’s Rules of Transformation for Euler-Venn Diagrams
Abstract: Charles S. Peirce introduced in 1903 a set a transformation rules for Euler-Venn diagrams. This innovation contrasted with earlier practices where logicians rather extracted the desired information by a simple 'glance' at their diagrams. Also, Peirce's set of rules was the starting point of Sun-Joo Shin's more recent systems which, in turn, inspired most subsequent modern diagrammatic systems. Despite their significance, these rules got little attention from both diagram and Peirce scholars. In this paper, we revisit Peirce's rules of transformation and discuss the extent to which they 'survived' in modern diagrammatic systems. We will specifically consider their clarity and completeness to assess Peirce's assumption that some of his rules may be simplified while others may have been overlooked.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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