Verbal Concept Maps

Abstract

Conceptual maps have become so advanced, and specific to narrow fields that today only specialized experts such as mathematicians and computer scientists are able to understand them. The esoteric logical and mathematical diagrams such as Euler's and Venn's specialized maps were nearly invisible because they were never very visible in the first place. Concurrently, general verbal and logical conceptual diagrams became nearly invisible because they were internalized as structures as verbal maps as figure receded into the ground as the accepted paradigm of logical thinking and exegesis among the educated. This chapter covers the retrieval of Verbal Concept mapping traceable to the works of Peter Ramus, focusing on the works of Albert Upton, David Ausubel, and J.D. Novak.