Type of diagrammatic or visual notation for logical expressions
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An existential graph is a type of diagrammatic or visual notation for logical expressions, proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce, who wrote on graphical logic as early as 1882,[1] and continued to develop the method until his death in 1914.
^Peirce, C. S., "[On Junctures and Fractures in Logic]" (editors' title for MS 427 (the new numbering system), Fall–Winter 1882), and "Letter, Peirce to O. H. Mitchell" (L 294, 21 December 1882), Writings of Charles S. Peirce, v. 4, "Junctures" on pp. 391–393 (Google preview) and the letter on pp. 394–399 (Google preview). See Sowa, John F. (1997), "Matching Logical Structure to Linguistic Structure", Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Don D. Roberts, and James Van Evra, editors, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp. 418–444, see 420, 425, 426, 428.
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for example: tree diagram Network diagram Flowchart Venn diagram Existentialgraph Quantitative diagrams, which display a relationship between two variables...
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Don D. (2009). "7.12 The Graphical Analysis of Propositions". The ExistentialGraphs of Charles S. Peirce. De Gruyter. p. 131. ISBN 978-3-11022622-5. Büning...
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recognizing intersection graphs of line segments is complete for the existential theory of the reals (Schaefer 2010). The line graph of a graph G is defined as...
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