An Innovative Approach to Diagrams Representation: The Marlo Diagrams Web Page

In this work we present a web version of Marlo diagrams, which are an innovative way to visualize basic principles of logical reasoning, returning to the tradition of the Quantification of the Predicate. The page contains concise instructions, multiple examples of classical reasoning, and more than one hundred proposed exercises. Thus, it is a teaching resource that can be executed on computers, mobile phones, and tablets as an ICT tool for the development of critical thinking. We present the essential definitions of Marlo diagrams and their operations and provide JavaScript code examples to illustrate their implementation. We also present the line of research that we are currently working on to expand the scope of Marlo diagrams by adding disjunctions to their regions.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Logic, Language, and Information Research Group (HUM 609), Seville University, Seville, Spain

   Fernando Soler Toscano

2. Logic, Language, and Information Research Group (HUM 609), Huelva University, Huelva, Spain

   Marcos Bautista López Aznar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Fernando Soler Toscano .

Editors and Affiliations

1. University of Münster, Münster, Germany

   Jens Lemanski

2. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

   Mikkel Willum Johansen

3. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

   Emmanuel Manalo

4. Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil

   Petrucio Viana

5. University of Münster, Münster, Germany

   Reetu Bhattacharjee

6. West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA, USA

   Richard Burns

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