ABSTRACT

This chapter explores that seeing-in, the central element of pictorial experience, is a form of aspect perception. And, as part of this aspect perception, experiences the picture's surface as resembling the depicted scene in two-dimensional shape and have a non-perceptual awareness of the depth and volume of that scene which is similar to, but not quite like imagining. With respect to the Question of Content, this seems to be the case. The relation described, as a relation of organisation is an instance or determination of the relation that, holds between any aspect and the relevant visible lower-level features. But the preceding considerations should have made clear that this view has at least one advantage over its unitary rivals: it can accommodate both the experience of resemblance in two-dimensional shape and the experience of the third dimension of depth by understanding seeing-in in terms of aspect perception.