This book examines the logical foundations of visual information: information presented in the form of diagrams, graphs, charts, tables, and maps. The importance of visual information is clear from its frequent presence in everyday reasoning and communication, and also in computation. Chapters of the book develop the logics of familiar systems of diagrams such as Venn diagrams and Euler circles. Other chapters develop the logic of higraphs, Peirce diagrams, and a system having both diagrams and sentences among its well-formed representations. Syntax, semantics, rules of inference, and soundness and completeness results are provided for each of the systems. In addition to developing the logic of diagrams, key questions about the status of visual information are discussed, such as the relationship between language and visually-presented information.
| ISBN: | 9781881526995 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 1995 |
| Author: | Eric M Hammer |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications an imprint of Center for the Study of Language and Inf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 124 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Logic, Language, and Information |
| Genres: |
Mathematical logic |
This book examines the logical foundations of visual information: information presented in the form of diagrams, graphs, charts, tables, and maps. The importance of visual information is clear from its frequent presence in everyday reasoning and communication, and also in computation. Chapters of the book develop the logics of familiar systems of diagrams such as Venn diagrams and Euler circles. Other chapters develop the logic of higraphs, Peirce diagrams, and a system having both diagrams and sentences among its well-formed representations. Syntax, semantics, rules of inference, and soundness and completeness results are provided for each of the systems. In addition to developing the logic of diagrams, key questions about the status of visual information are discussed, such as the relationship between language and visually-presented information.
Logic and Visual Information features in the following genres: Mathematical logic
Logic and Visual Information is available in Paperback
Logic and Visual Information was written by Eric M Hammer and published by CSLI Publications an imprint of Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Logic and Visual Information has 124 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Logic, Language, and Information series