La fonction de la carte geographique: approche epistemologique ternaire
Keywords:
Épistémologie ternaire, tiers-inclus, tertium datur, carte, information, signification, communication cartographique.Abstract
The function of the geographic map: a ternary epistemological approach. Under the
referential of a ternary logic, with the two orthogonal concepts of information signification, mediated
by the third-included, the diagonal organizer of the cartographic communication, this article deals with
the pragmatical aspects of the functionnality of the map as a communication object. The interaction
beween the meaning of its information and reciprocally the information contained in its signification,
within a specified context and pertinence, implies a strong level of redundancy shared by the producers
and the users of the map, a same system of scientific and ideological values to pass on the cartographic
message. We are far from the objective cartographer who would fade away so to let the facts speaks
« objectively » by themselves.
