Author : Eric Hammer
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781881526995
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (269 download)
Book Synopsis Logic and Visual Information by : Eric Hammer
Download or read book Logic and Visual Information written by Eric Hammer and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. This book was released on 1995-10-27 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.