Searching for a Common Ancestry: Linguistic and Biological Analogies in Comic Art

Sometimes comic book readers randomly encounter images in a comic that closely resemble images in other comics. This artwork could appear to the reader to have been copied, even directly 'lifted' from older or better-known comics. Sometimes, however, it does seem like any similarities have been generated independently, by chance or serendipity. In this note we draw on the work of Umberto Eco, William Lethaby, Walter Benjamin and Carl Jung to describe a multidisciplinary conceptual framework to analyse similar images using a heuristic approach involving two analogy concepts drawn from two different disciplines: linguistics and biology. When the origin of similarity between images is well documented, we propose the linguistic analogy approach can explain the phenomenon of recurrent images. When the similarity between two images appears to be unexplainable, or the result of mere chance, we propose that the concept of biological analogy can be helpful to explain the superficial resemblance of elements that have different origins

Fregean Logical Graphs

In \u201cGedankengef\ufcge\u201d Frege says that any two sentences of the form \u201cA and B\u201d and \u201cB and A\u201d have the same sense. In a 1906 letter to Husserl he says that sentences with the same sense should be represented in a perfect notation by one and the same formula. Frege\u2019s own notation, just like any linear notation for sentential logic, is not perfect in this sense, because in it \u201cA and B\u201d and \u201cB and A\u201d are represented by distinct formulas, as is any pair of logically equivalent compound conditionals. A notation for the sentential calculus that meets Frege\u2019s worries about conjunction, and indeed about any symmetric relation that there may be occasion to symbolize, is Peirce\u2019s Alpha graphs

Never Mind The Iguana, What About The Tortoise? Models in Adaptive Behaviour

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