Logic of the Future: Writings on Existential Graphs. Volume 1: History and Applications

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In three comprehensive volumes, Logic of the Future presents a full panorama of Charles S. Peirce’s most important late writings. Among the most influential American thinkers, Peirce took his existential graphs to be a significant contribution to human thought. The manuscripts from 1895–1913, with many of them being published here for the first time, testify to the richness and open-endedness of his theory of logic and its applications. They also invite us to reconsider our ordinary conceptions of reasoning as well as the conventional stories concerning the evolution of modern logic. This first volume of Logic of the Future is on the historical development, theory and application of Peirce’s graphical method and diagrammatic reasoning. It also illustrates the abundant further developments and applications Peirce envisaged existential graphs to have on the analysis of mathematics, language, meaning and mind. Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Peirce’s Works and Archives Introductory Note Foreword Contents General Introduction to Logic of the Future Introduction to the Theory of Existential Graphs and Volume 1 Introduction to Volume 1: History and Applications References Charles S. Peirce: Writings on Existential Graphs Part I: Reasoning and Diagrams 1. Essays on Reasoning 2. Diversions of Definitions 3. [Reasoning, Logic and Action] 4. Of Reasoning in General Part II: Development of Existential Graphs 5. On Logical Graphs 6. Positive Logical Graphs (PLG) 7. On Logical Graphs (Acad. Graphs) 8. On Logical Graphs [Euler and EGs] 9. [Memoir for the National Academy of Sciences on Existential Graphs] 10. [Six Papers on Existential Graphs] 11. On Existential Graphs, F4 12. Peripatetic Talks Part III: Theory and Application of Existential Graphs 13. The Principles of Logical Graphics 14. On the First Principles of Logical Algebra 15. On the Basic Rules of Logical Transformation 16. A Proposed Logical Notation 17. The Simplest Possible Mathematical System 18. Multitude and Continuity 19. [A System of Existential Graphs] 20. Reason’s Conscience 21. Topical Geometry 22. Logical Analysis of some Demonstrations in high Arithmetic 23. A New Deduction of the Properties of Positive Integers 24. A Contribution to the Amazes of Mathematics 25. Logical Critique of the Creed of Religion 26. Assurance through Reasoning 27. [Logical Graphs, from the Prescott Book] 28. [Existential Graphs, from the Logic Notebook] Bibliography of Peirce’s References Catalogue of Peirce’s Writings Name Index Keyword Index