what does it mean when people say they think in pictures or words?
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I’m not sure I can ELI5, but to me it’s a core sensitivity difference that’s formed and embellished from youth. Some people form mental pathways surrounding logocentrisms or symbols/words as static and *true* objects in the world, while others have more nominalist perspectives and might say that abstract base sensitivities and a lack of boundaries between things constitute reality. It’s often only convenient to refer to objects and ideas in the world, but the closer we look the less determinable their boundaries are.
Imagine a black dot. There are many assumptions you’ve made in doing just that. Is the dot fuzzy or sharp? Is it on a background when you picture ‘it’? All of these subtle sensitivities are understood as phenomenologies of perception and evidence of thinking with visual phenomena and without words.
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