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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math CognitionScience, Magic, and the In-Between: Whence Logic

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition: Science, Magic, and the In-Between: Whence Logic [In the course of modern history, science and magic have gradually become separated into a pair of binary opposites. While acknowledging what the “pure reason” of modernity considered to be a supernatural action, science nevertheless attempted to explain the latter in terms of a regular method of a direct cause-effect connection as a method in natural science, promptly arriving at a conclusion of either anomalous effect (as in magic) or anomalous cause (as in mantic). But can what is called magic still be considered a science—a science of hidden relations that are nevertheless, and in accord with Charles S. Peirce’s pragmatic maxim, capable of producing real effects? Surely John Deely (2001) acknowledged Peirce’s vision as rooted in science rather than mysticism. This chapter uses one of the Tarot cards called the Magician as an index of overcoming a schism between the dual opposites when positioned in the conceptual framework of semiotics that allows us to elucidate the meaning of this sign (Fig. 12.1).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math CognitionScience, Magic, and the In-Between: Whence Logic

Part of the Mathematics in Mind Book Series
Editors: Danesi, Marcel
Semetsky, Inna
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition — Sep 15, 2019
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-22536-0
Pages
227 –245
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-22537-7_12
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Abstract

[In the course of modern history, science and magic have gradually become separated into a pair of binary opposites. While acknowledging what the “pure reason” of modernity considered to be a supernatural action, science nevertheless attempted to explain the latter in terms of a regular method of a direct cause-effect connection as a method in natural science, promptly arriving at a conclusion of either anomalous effect (as in magic) or anomalous cause (as in mantic). But can what is called magic still be considered a science—a science of hidden relations that are nevertheless, and in accord with Charles S. Peirce’s pragmatic maxim, capable of producing real effects? Surely John Deely (2001) acknowledged Peirce’s vision as rooted in science rather than mysticism. This chapter uses one of the Tarot cards called the Magician as an index of overcoming a schism between the dual opposites when positioned in the conceptual framework of semiotics that allows us to elucidate the meaning of this sign (Fig. 12.1).]

Published: Sep 15, 2019

Keywords: Triadic semiotics; Science of coordination dynamics; Mathematics; Mathesis; Projection; Peirce; Deleuze; Virtual logic; Tarot

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