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 - 54

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 ht Ground - 188

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