language-like representation for storing mental images during the Middle Ages

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I'm looking for information that might indicate that a propositional code (language-like representation) for storing mental images, rather than today's more widely accepted analog code (depictive representation), was thought about during the Middle Ages by philosophers, church fathers...

D. Raven

-- diane raven (draven@nmu.edu), October 14, 2002

Answers

Have a look at Mary Caruthers' _Book of Memory_. It is now virtually the "standard" reference on questions of this sort.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), October 15, 2002.

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