The Limits of the Square: Hegel's Opposition to Diagrams in Its Historical Context (2022), p. 126
by Pluder, Valentin

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Caption

Square with changed corner by M.W. Drobisch, 1851 ([4], p.76) . (Figure gratefully taken from the scans provided by the Münchner DigitalisierungsZentrum (www.digitalesammlungen.de))

Logic

Aristotelian family

Classical Sigma-2

Boolean complexity

3

Number of labels per vertex (at most)

1

Errors in the diagram

No

Geometry

Shape

Square (regular)

Colinearity range

0

Coplanarity range

0

Cospatiality range

0

Representation of contradiction

By central symmetry

Vertex description

Conceptual info

No

Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)

Yes

Form

none

Label type

symbolic

Symbolic field

logic

Contains partial formulas or symbols

Yes

Logical system

syllogistics

Edge description

Contains definitions of relations

No

Form

none

Has arrowheads

No

Overlap

No

Curved

No

Hooked

No

As wide as vertices

No

Contains text

Yes

Label type

linguistic

Language

Latin

Contains partial sentences or single words

Yes

Contain abbreviations

Yes

Style

Diagram is colored

No

Diagram is embellished

No