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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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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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