A Diagrammatic Notation for Visualizing Epistemic Entities and Relations

Authors

  • Kye Palider Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
  • Paul Patton IHPST, University of Toronto
  • Hakob Barseghyan Victoria College, University of Toronto
  • Julia Da Silva Department of English Language & Literatures, University of British Columbia
  • Torin Doppelt Independent Scholar
  • Nichole Levesley IHPST, University of Toronto
  • Jessica Rapson Munk School, University of Toronto
  • Ameer Sarwar Neuroscience, University of Oxford
  • Jamie Shaw IHPST, University of Toronto
  • Yifang Zhang Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  • Amna Zulfiqar Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33137/js.v4i0.37904

Keywords:

diagrammatic notation, knowledge visualization, synchronic diagram, diachronic diagram, epistemic element, epistemic stance, epistemic agent, epistemic entity, epistemic relation

Abstract

This paper presents a diagrammatic notation for visualizing epistemic entities and relations. The notation was created during the Visualizing Worldviews project funded by the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute and has been further developed by the scholars participating in the university’s Research Opportunity Program. Since any systematic diagrammatic notation should be based on a solid ontology of the respective domain, we first outline the current state of the scientonomic ontology. We then proceed to providing diagrammatic tools for visualizing the epistemic entities and relations of this ontology. These basic diagramming techniques allow us to construct diagrams of various types for both synchronic and diachronic visualizations. The paper concludes by highlighting some future research directions. As the notation presented here is de facto accepted and used in scientonomy, the paper suggests no modifications.

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2021-12-24

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Palider, K., Patton, P., Barseghyan, H., Da Silva, J., Doppelt, T., Levesley, N., … Zulfiqar, A. (2021). A Diagrammatic Notation for Visualizing Epistemic Entities and Relations. Scientonomy: Journal for the Science of Science, 4, 87–139. https://doi.org/10.33137/js.v4i0.37904

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Vol. 4 (2021)

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