Iconic Representations and Representative Practices

Ambrosio, Chiara

doi:10.1080/02698595.2014.959831

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“…In this chapter, we will be referring to iconicity in this most general sense throughout. Connections between models and Peirce's definitions of iconicity have been drawn by several commentators- Kralemann & Lattmann (2013), for example, consider models within the digital humanities, while Ambrosio (2014) addresses models in science more generally. The power of iconicity for conceptualising models is made particularly clear by Hookway:…”

Section: Looking For Explanations: a Peircean View Of Modelsmentioning

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From Data to Patterns

Bateman¹,

Hiippala²

2021

Empirical Multimodality Research

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Most approaches to empirical multimodality research adopt the assumption that communicative situations will give rise to distinctive patterns of phenomena which may be captured by formulating appropriate models and frameworks. While this assumption may be true in principle, detecting such patterns is far from straightforward. Informative patterns are likely to be distributed both within and across semiotic modes, be spread across various levels of abstraction, and exhibit intrinsic internal variation. The highly elusive nature of patterns arising amidst such complexity emphasises the need for increased attention to modelling, that is, characterising more closely the relationship between the theoretical constructs defined and the phenomena under analysis. In this chapter, we relate the practice of modelling to semiotic principles and introduce a reliable method for drawing patterns from data that is gaining increasing traction in statistical studies across the board.

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Section: Looking For Explanations: a Peircean View Of Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Data to Patterns

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Hiippala²

2021

Empirical Multimodality Research

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“…Ambrosio emphasises the active, contextual nature of iconicity: "'Constructing' an icon amounts to discovering, and selecting, relevant respects in which a representation captures salient features of the object it stands for." (Ambrosio 2014). These will be our design goals in the next section, but for the time being we can safely focus on the structural correspondences between an iconic sign and its object; such a sign can be said to have the very relations it represents.…”

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Diagrams for Navya-Nyāya

Burton

2020

J Indian Philos

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Although a number of authors have used diagrams extensively in their studies of Navya-Nyāya, they have done so to explain and illustrate concepts, not with the goal of reasoning with the diagrams themselves. Adherents of diagrammatic reasoning have made claims for its potential by pointing to key structural correspondences between diagrams and logical concepts, arguably lacking in sentential representations, and describing these relations using concepts such as "well matchedness" and "iconicity". A canonical example of this iconicity is the use of Euler diagrams to depict categorical syllogisms. Since the meaning of expressions in Indian logic differs in so many important ways from logic in the Western tradition, the use or adaptation of diagrams developed in the latter would seem to preclude iconicity. Thus, the development of diagrams which reflect the nature of inference in Navya-Nyāya, which centres on the anumāna inference schema, is motivated. In this paper we extend Ganeri's method of depicting the Vaiśeṡika ontology with graphs to include syntax intended to expose the nature of anumāna. The diagrams are given a formal basis: i.e. abstract syntax, inference rules defined abstractly and a graph-theoretic semantics. These are the first formalised logical diagrams that aim to reflect the nature of the anumāna inference. This paper lays the way for further work in extending the formalism to cover more of Navya-Nyāya, and in exploring a dialogue between properties of the formalism and of Navya-Nyāya.

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“…15 This has often being interpreted as Peirce claiming that a relation of resemblance governs iconic representations. I have joined the host of Peirce scholars that have questioned the superficial account of resemblance implicit in these criticisms in Ambrosio (2014). See also Dipert 1996;Hookway 2000, ch.3;Stjernfelt 2000;Stjernfelt 2007;Stjernfelt 2011, and Legg 2011 and Legg 2013 among the most notable defenders of iconicity.…”

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Toward an Integrated History and Philosophy of Diagrammatic Practices

Ambrosio

2020

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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This article offers an overview of current approaches to the study of diagrams and their roles in scientific knowledge making. The discussion develops in three parts. The first investigates and questions historical and philosophical analyses of the suppression of diagrams in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It attempts to sketch an alternative historiography of diagrammatic practices in which the insights of advocates of diagrammatic reasoning in a time of “objectivity without images” take center stage. The second part turns to the American philosopher, scientist, and logician Charles Sanders Peirce as a representative defender of diagrammatic reasoning and diagrammatic representation in the late nineteenth century, and it investigates his legacy on current approaches to diagrams. The final part exposes a puzzling paradox in the literature, characterizing it as a false dichotomy between “the representational view” and the “object-based view” of diagrams. The article concludes that this dichotomy reveals more about the identities of scholars embracing particular disciplinary traditions than about diagrams themselves, and it suggests that this can be overcome by attending to diagramming as a practice at the intersections of representation, manipulation, and experimentation.

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Iconic Representations and Representative Practices

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

From Data to Patterns

From Data to Patterns

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Toward an Integrated History and Philosophy of Diagrammatic Practices

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