
Jesse Prinz on Thinking with Pictures
Philosophy Bites
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The Empiricist View of Linguistics
The reader isn't an inner eye, and interprets images rather than making decisions about what to do with them. Experimental psychology in some way has provided the best support for the empiricist picture. The questions are presented in language, and we should be able to just translate into mental language and answer. But if you go from is a blender loud to our cranburys tart gostatory feature, or canary's yellow, a visual feature, we should be slow down.
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