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Jesse Prinz on Thinking with Pictures

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The Idea of Imagery in the Mind

locke thinks that if learning is based on observation and experience, then we have to take these sensory foundations and use them to build up knowledge. And how does that relate to this idea of imagery in the mind? So if you go to the example of a concept of dog, how do you understand what dogs are? Well, obviously, and everyone would agree with this, you can hear a dog,. You can smell a dog, you can feel its fur, and you can see it. We use that mental image, or tha collection of mental images, to think about dogs in their absence. Now he problem with us is at it makes everybody's idea of dog different, unless two people

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