Sentence examples for inner pictures from inspiring English sources

Of course, Pylyshyn was far from the first person to raise objections to the idea of inner pictures, or to criticize the standard interpretations of imagery experiments.

By contrast, in his Mental Images – A Defence, Hannay (1971) vigorously championed the reality of inner pictures (see also Hannay, 1973, and for a counterargument see Candlish, 1975).

The fact that the subjects and the experimenter may share similar assumptions about the causes of quasi-visual experience (the "folk theory" of images as inner pictures), so that both interpret the experiment in terms of operations on inner pictures in an inner space, is not evidence that those assumptions are correct.

There is some evidence that when people know relatively little about the theoretical issues and empirical evidence concerning imagery there is a correlation between their inclination to believe in inner pictures and the (introspectively reported) vividness of their imagery (i.e., people with more vivid imagery are more likely to believe in inner pictures).

This introspectively based argument against description theory, weak though it is, is often prelude to the even stronger claim that the phenomenology of imagery directly supports the view that mental images are inner pictures.

Whatever Locke's true intentions may have been, many of his leading successors and critics, such as Berkeley and Reid, seem to have understood him as believing that ideas are inner representational entities, and, when visual, are like inner pictures.

He goes onto say that it is important to "create an inner picture of the sensual woman you feel like being today".

Since I know that our inner picture of ourselves drives our outer actions, my goal is to help people see their true personal potential through our Making It! television program and the work of the Making It Institute.

The inner picture shows the barrier tree upon which the relative concentrations of the diagram are based.

Clearly Pylyshyn objects, as many philosophers have before him, to the notion of inner mental pictures that are somehow called to mind and reperceived by the "mind's eye".

Also, in the Philebus (39b,c), in discussing circumstances when visual perception is unreliable, he speaks (metaphorically) of an inner artist painting pictures (of what we think we see) in the soul.