The definition of image is too vague

The notion of "image" has no clear meaning except by association with the commonsense notion of a picture—which misleads the study of mind as it implies a spatial geometric figure is somehow actually present in the brain when we perceive an image.

Zenon Pylyshyn (1973).
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