TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gauker,Christopher
TI  - Words and images: an essay on the origin of ideas 
SN  - 9780191729225 (ebook) :
AV  - BD220 
U1  - 121.4 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Idea (Philosophy)
KW  - Comprehension (Theory of knowledge)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599462.001.0001
ER  -