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Functional versus real space: Is pictorialism hopeless?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Verena Gottschling
Affiliation:
Philosophisches Seminar, University of Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germanyverena@gottschling-net.de

Abstract

Pylyshyn raises hot topics like the number and kinds of pictorialist theories there are and their explanatory power. Pylyshyn states that pictorialists have only two possibilities – they can posit either “only functional” images or “really spatial” images – and that neither of these possibilities is convincing or sufficient in explanatory power for empirical and theoretical reasons. Is pictorialism, in principle, untenable?

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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