Visual Thinking
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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