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By Catherine Legg (auth.), Amirouche Moktefi, Sun-Joo Shin (eds.)

Logic, the self-discipline that explores legitimate reasoning, doesn't have to be restricted to a selected kind of illustration yet may still contain any shape so long as it permits us to attract sound conclusions from given details. using diagrams has an extended yet unequal heritage in common sense: The golden age of diagrammatic common sense of the nineteenth century due to Euler and Venn diagrams was once via the early twentieth century's symbolization of contemporary good judgment via Frege and Russell. lately, now we have been witnessing a revival of curiosity in diagrams from a number of disciplines - arithmetic, good judgment, philosophy, cognitive technological know-how, and machine technology. This ebook goals to supply an area for this newly debated subject - the logical prestige of diagrams - with a view to improve the objective of common common sense via exploring universal and/or distinctive positive aspects of visible reasoning.

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