What is a diagram?

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jean-yves beziau

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Sep 26, 2025, 8:13:20 AMSep 26
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My joint paper with Verônica Filíppovna "What is a Diagram?"
was recently published in the journal Al Mukhatabat, number 54 (2025):
Our characterization is close to the following comments by Peirce that we cite on page 148:
 “A diagram should be as iconic as possible; that is, it should represent relationships by means of visible relations analogous to them. 
Icons are especially requisite for reasoning. A diagram is mainly an icon, and an icon of intelligible relations."
JYB
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Jean-Yves Beziau
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
https://www.philpeople.org/profiles/jean-yves-beziau

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