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As part of a broader (and very influential) attack on what he called "Descartes' myth" (i.e., Cartesian dualism), Ryle argued that the notion of private, non-physical, mental pictures is an absurdity, and proposed instead that "imagining", "seeing in the mind's eye", and so forth, is better understood as akin to pretending (to ourselves) to experience ordinary, external things.
Forming mental pictures is automatic.
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My mental picture is Gwyneth at last year's Oscar's, when she was all nimbus-y".
My own mental picture is of a small, hot, angry rodent inside the joint, trying to burrow its way out.
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A mental picture is that (a i, b j ) must be broken into fractal frames (fractured) to avoid crossing the diagonal.
"His mental picture was this was a case ripe to be overturned," Stebenne said.
My mental picture was of a small sinuous creature, with a gamine haircut and wide eyes like a lynx; someone who spoke in a dry whisper, if she spoke at all.
Mental hygiene pictures were a staple of the American educational system throughout the quarter century following World War II.
Fodor (1975), borrowing liberally from the Wittgenstein of the Philosophical Investigations (1953 §139 f ., made a compelling case that mental pictures cannot be the foundational bearers of intentionality because what they resemble is too indeterminate (cf. Goodman, 1970).
"That is the mental picture I'm carrying around," Dr. Kogut said.
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