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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