Visual Thinking ≈

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