@article{Atkins2017,
author = "Richard K. Atkins",
title = "{Peirce, Muybridge, and the Moving Pictures of Thought}",
year = 2017,
journal = "Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society",
volume = 53,
number = "4",
pages = "511-527",
issn = "00091774",
abstract = "{Peirce once called his graphical system of logic-the Existential Graphs-the moving pictures of thought. I argue that Peirce meant that using his graphs to study the movement of thought is akin to Eadweard Muybridge's use of moving pictures to study animal motion, and I show that this analogy is highly apt for several reasons. The analogy is apt because: (1) Just as animal motion is continuous, thought is continuous; (2) Animal motion, like the movement of thought, is too swift and complex to examine directly, without aid; (3) Nevertheless, just as we can record a series of moments of animal motion with the use of a special instrument (viz., cameras and instantaneous photographs), so too we can record a series of moments of thought with the use of a special instrument (viz., the Existential Graphs), enabling us to study its structure; and (4) Through the study of these moments of thought, or of animal motion, we will improve our understanding of them and be able to settle debates about them.}",
keywords = "Existential Graph, Eadweard Muybridge",
language = "English",
note = "From the Commens Bibliography | \url{http://www.commens.org/bibliography/journal_article/atkins-richard-k-2017-peirce-muybridge-and-moving-pictures-thought}"
}
