Visual Thinking

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Contents

Early Stirrings

Perception torn from thinking.

1

The Intelligence of Perception (i)

Perception as cognition.

13

The Intelligence of Perception (ii)

Subtracting the context.

37

Two and Two Together

Relations depend on structure.

54

The Past in the Present

Forces acting on memory.

80

The Images of Thought

What are mental images like?

97

Concepts Take Shape

Abstract gestures..

116

Pictures, Symbols, and Signs

The functions of images.

137

What Abstraction Is Not

A harmful dichotomy.

153

What Abstraction Is

Types and containers.

153

With Feet on the Ground

Abstraction as withdrawal.

188

Thinking With Pure Shapes

Numbers reflect life.

208

Words in Their Place

Can one think in words?

226

Art and Thought

Thinking in children's drawings.

254

Models for Theory

Cosmological shapes.

274

Vision in Education

What is art for?

294

Notes

317

Bibliography

325

Index

339