For those unaware that network television is providing a fascinating but in some ways depressing representation of relations between a mother and her adult children, drop in on the show.
In §3.1, we established a connection between Peirce's own pragmatic maxim and his graphic representation of relations.
Importantly, in section 4 when the third grade of clearness of the meaning 'relation' is discussed, diagrammatic representation of relations makes its first appearance.
He almost took it for granted that a graphic representation of relations helps us observe their consequences in a more efficient way.
As indicated, order matters in our representation of relations: the binary role that Boswell bears to Johnson is distinct from the binary role that Johnson bears to Boswell, the latter, of course, being the converse of the former.
It has not been lost to the swelling ranks of Systems Biologists that the reduction of data interoperability to the ternary representation of relations [34] brings the topic solidly back to the Galilean fold of Mathematics as a language.
However, representation of relations among two or more events is a unique feature of the INOH database.
Given a representation of a relation algebra we construct relation algebras of pairs and of intervals.
Believing that this graphic style of representation would help us conceive the consequences or effects of a given relation in a more efficient way, Peirce presents Entitative Graphs, which is a predecessor of EG.[20] EG keeps the representation of a relation developed in Peirce's 1897 paper, and it remains as his final and the most cherished notation for the logic of relations (CP: 3.456 3.552).
Figure 1 Schematic representation of the relation between sinogram B ( i, t ) and corresponding CT image f ( x, y ).
