Contents
Early Stirrings --1
Perception torn from thinking.
The Intelligence of Perception (i) --13
Perception as cognition.
The Intelligence of Perception (ii) --37
Subtracting the context.
Two and Two Together --57
Relations depend on structure.
The Past in the Present --80
Forces acting on memory.
The Images of Thought --97
What are mental images like?
Concepts Take Shape --116
Abstract gestures..
Pictures, Symbols, and Signs --135
The functions of images.
What Abstraction Is Not --153
A harmful dichotomy.
What Abstraction Is --153
Types and containers.
With Feet on the Ground --183
Abstraction as withdrawal.
Thinking With Pure Shapes --208
Numbers reflect life.
Words in Their Place --226
Can one think in words?
Art and Thought --254
Thinking in children's drawings.
Models for Theory --274
Cosmological shapes.
Vision in Education --294
What is art for?
Notes --317
Bibliography --325
Index --339