ABSTRACT

However, pictorialists agree that there is no actual picture in the brain-it would involve an inner eye to see it, and how would that work? Imaging a red tomato does not involve a circular bit of the brain being red. Rather, as with the descriptionalists, we represent something as a red tomato, only the representing is spatial rather than linguistic. Also the indeterminacy objection does not hold, they claim: an ordinary stick-picture of a person may leave it indeterminate, and not merely blurred or hidden, whether it is male or female, clothed or unclothed, etc.