Jon AS and Jeff BD,
[JFS] I would say that every diagram is an image ...
[JAS] Peirce explicitly said otherwise in CP 2.277,
dividing hypoicons into images, diagrams, and metaphors.
But 'hypoicon' is a very technical term.
JBD
Peirce seems to use the term "image" in at least two senses...
There is an image involved in this type of mathematical activity,
but it would appear that the more formal features of the image
matter more than the more material features. (CP 3.609-10)
Yes. Diagrammatical reasoning definitely depends on the formal
features. I believe that we need to preserve Peirce's distinctions
when we're explicitly referring to his writings. I did a bit of
googling, and found the following article:
Images, diagrams, and metaphors: Hypoicons in the context of
Peirce’s sixty-six fold classification of signs
by PRISCILA FARIAS and JOA˜O QUEIROZ
https://www.academia.edu/377290/Images_Diagrams_and_Metaphors_Hypoicons_In_the_Context_of_Peirces_Sixty-Six-Fold_Classification_of_Signs
But we also need to relate Peirce's terminology to the language
of readers who are not Peirce scholars. For example, the
following quotation by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio (2010)
could be used to support Peirce's claims:
The distinctive feature of brains such as the one we own is
their uncanny ability to create maps... But when brains make
maps, they are also creating images, the main currency of our
minds. Ultimately consciousness allows us to experience maps as
images, to manipulate those images, and to apply reasoning to them.
From Damasio, Antonio R. (2010) Self Comes to Mind: Constructing
the Conscious Brain, New York: Pantheon Books.
John
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