Quasi-pictorial images face an infinite regress
Pictures are intrinsically perspectival, so the notion of the quasi-pictorial image makes the assumption of a point of view, or a mind’s eye. As a result, the use of quasi-pictorial images falls into an infinite regress of interpretations.

The image must be interpreted by the mind's eye, but then that perspective must also be interpreted, because the mind's eye then becomes part of the image, and so on ad infinitum.

Therefore, the idea of a picture-like representations in the mind is incoherent.

Argument anticipated by Stephen Kosslyn and James Pomerantz, 1977.
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Quasi-pictorial images face an infinite regress
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