Signs as means for discoveries: Peirce and his concepts of "diagrammatic reasoning", "theorematic deduction", "hypostatic abstraction", and "theoric transformation"

Activity and Sign: Grounding Mathematics Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 45-56

  Hoffmann, Michael H G ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

diagrammatic reasoning; hypostatic abstraction; mathematics; Peirce; semiotics; synthesis; theorematic deduction; theoric transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244453892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24270-8_5     Document Type: Chapter

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