The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘PAP [ed.]’

Term: 
Diagram
Quote: 

…a Diagram is an Icon of a set of rationally related objects. By rationally related, I mean that there is between them, not merely one of those relations which we know by experience, but know not how to comprehend, but one of those relations which anybody who reasons at all must have an inward acquintance with. This is not a sufficient definition, but just now I will go no further, except that I will say that the Diagram not only represents the related correlates, but also, and much more definitely represents the relations between them, as so many objects of the Icon.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1906-7). PAP [ed.]. MS [R] 293
Date: 
1906-7
References: 
NEM 4:316
Citation: 
‘Diagram’ (pub. 07.04.13-11:17). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-pap-ed-2.
Posted: 
Apr 07, 2013, 11:17 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jun 22, 2017, 14:39 by Mats Bergman