Visual Thinking
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Contents
1. Early Stirrings
Perception torn from thinking.
2. The Intelligence of Perception (i)
Perception as cognition.
3. The Intelligence of Perception (ii)
Subtracting the context.
4. Two and Two Together
Relations depend on structure.
5. The Past in the Present
Forces acting on memory.
6. The Images of Thought
What are mental images like?
7. Concepts Take Shape
Abstract gestures.
8. Pictures, Symbols, and Signs
The functions of images.
9. What Abstraction Is Not
A harmful dichotomy.
10. What Abstraction Is
Types and containers.
11. With Feet on the Ground
Abstraction as withdrawal.
12. Thinking With Pure Shapes
Numbers reflect life.
13. Words in Their Place
Can one think in words?
14. Art and Thought
Thinking in children's drawings.
15. Models for Theory
Cosmological shapes.
16. Vision in Education
What is art for?
Notes
Bibliography
Index