Visual Thinking ≈C Contents

1. Early Stirrings – 1 Perception torn from thinking.

2. The Intelligence of Perception (i) – 13 Perception as cognition.

3. The Intelligence of Perception (ii) – 37 Subtracting the context.

4. Two and Two Together – 54 Relations depend on structure.

5. The Past in the Present – 80 Forces acting on memory.

6. The Images of Thought – 97 What are mental images like?

7. Concepts Take Shape – 116 Abstract gestures.

8. Pictures, Symbols, and Signs – 135 The functions of images.

9. What Abstraction Is Not – 153 A harmful dichotomy.

10. What Abstraction Is – 153 Types and containers.

11. With Feet on the Ground – 188 Abstraction as withdrawal.

12. Thinking With Pure Shapes – 208 Numbers reflect life.

13. Words in Their Place – 226 Can one think in words?

14. Art and Thought – 254 Thinking in children's drawings.

15. Models for Theory – 274 Cosmological shapes.

16. Vision in Education – 294 What is art for?

Notes – 317

Bibliography – 325

Index – 339