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Words and Images : An Essay on the Origin of Ideas by Christopher Gauker is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Words and Images : An Essay on the Origin of Ideas about?
For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of mental imagery, without the help of concepts.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher Gauker
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199684748
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Philosophy, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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