Characteristics of diagrammatic reasoning
Résumé
Diagrammatic, analogical or iconic representations are often contrasted with linguistic or logical representations, in which the shape of the symbols is arbitrary. Although commonly used, diagrams have long suffered from their reputation as mere tools, as mere support for intuition. We list here the main characteristics of diagrammatic inferential systems, and defend the idea that heterogeneous representation systems, including both linguistic and diagrammatic representations, offer real computational perspectives in knowledge modeling and reasoning.
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