Mathematics, semiotics, and modeling systems theory
Mathematics, semiotics, and modeling systems theory

Summary/Abstract: In his groundbreaking 1962 study on the cognitive source of scientific theories, the American philosopher Max Black argued convincingly that the genesis of theoretical notions and frameworks in the sciences and mathematics was not solely the result of scientists deducing them from empirical observations or experimental results, but also, and primarily, the result of scientists making inferences and connections between facts, other theories, and even everyday experience (Black 1962). Indirectly, Black laid the foundations for a semiotic study of the nature of mathematics and science with his idea, radical for the era in which it was conceived.

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