| Recursive interpretation gives wrong picture  OpposingArgument1 #976 Recursive loops don't allow the background of the figure-ground structure to have independent properties; but a key property of Gestalt images is that their backgrounds are symbols in the own right. Hence, Gestalts are not recursively interpretable.  | 
Joseph Rychlak (1991).
  Note: also see the sidebar Postulates of the Dialectical Paradigm on Map 3.  |