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Logical book

Sun-Joo Shin, _The Iconic Logic of Peirce's Graphs_
(MIT Press, 2002).

From the publisher's catalog blurb:
"At the dawn of modern logic, Charles S. Peirce invented
two types of logical systems, one symbolic and the other
graphical. In this book Sun-Joo Shin explores the
philosophical roots of the birth of Peirce's Existential
Graphs in his theory of representation and logical
notation. Shin demonstrates that Peirce is the first
philosopher to lay a solid philosophical foundation for
multimodal representation systems.

"Shin analyzes Peirce's well-known, but much-criticized
nonsymbolic representation system. She presents a new
approach to his graphical system based on her discovery
of its unique nature and on a reconstruction of Peirce's
theory of representation. By seeking to understand
graphical systems on their own terms, she uncovers the
reasons why graphical systems, and Existential Graphs in
particular, have been underappreciated among logicians.

Drawing on perspectives from the philosophy of mind,
cognitive science, logic, and computer science, Shin
provides evidence for a genuinely interdisciplinary
project on multimodal reasoning."