Abstract
This paper utilizes a diagrammatic language for expressing certain philosophical notions, such as possible worlds, beliefs, and propositions. The focus is on a diagrammatic representation that depicts “things” to show how their various important properties and relations can be explicated in terms of diagrams. The paper does not add a new contribution to philosophy (what is said in it); rather, it contributes a representation tool for philosophy. Akin to specifications in software engineering, the proposed is to provide a complementary technique for expressing different aspects of the involved philosophical concepts that are typically presented in the form of textual explanations. The resultant diagrams seem to be a viable tool that can be utilized in teaching, in communication, and to facilitate an understanding of philosophical problems.
Highlights
It has been a major objective of many philosophers and scientists to achieve a representation without ambiguity through building universal languages
A diagram of a man is a representation because it is about the man
The focus is on a diagrammatic representation that depicts things that “may exist in a possible or fictional world” [6]
Summary
It has been a major objective of many philosophers and scientists to achieve a representation without ambiguity through building universal languages. In resemblance to Von Eckard’s definition of mental representation, the representation of concern, here, includes such things as “concrete objects, sets, properties, events, and states of affairs in this world, in possible worlds, and in fictional worlds as well as abstract objects such as universals and numbers; that can represent both an object (in and of itself) and an aspect of that object (or both extension and intension); and that can represent both correctly and incorrectly” [7] Such a representation is utilized “to characterize the kind of phenomena that occur in any knowledge process or that constitute it” [8]. The illustrative example of the vision mechanism of humans given here is a new contribution
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