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On pictures and the words that fail them

Choice Reviews OnlinePublished 1 January 1999
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Abstract

1. Marks, Traces, Traits, Contours, Orli, and Splendors 2. The anti-splendor 3. Figure and Ground in Philosophy, Neurophysiology, Phenomenology, Psychology, Painting, and Psychoanalysis 4. The signs of writing 5. The common origins of pictures, writing, and notation 6. Different horizons for the concept of image 7. Nine steps down the ladder of disorder 8. The unrepresentable, the unpicturable, the inconceivable, the unseeable.

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Neuroscience