We introduce a stepwise approach for computing symbolic diagrams. Such logical diagrams display formulas and connections between
them and they are useful tools for visualizing connections between formulas as well as for reasoning about them. This incremental
approach is modular: it starts from small diagrams and expands them. We explain the method and justify it. We also comment
on the application of these ideas and illustrate them with some examples.
Keywords Knowledge representation - symbolic reasoning - diagrams
Research partly sponsored by CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council) and FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation).