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Rev.Phil.Psych. (2015) 6:99–116 DOI 10.1007/s13164-014-0214-3 The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought Barbara Tversky Published online: 26 October 2014 # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Abstract When thought overwhelms the mind, the mind puts it into the world, notably in diagrams and gestures.Both use space and arrays of elements, depictive and non- depictive, to convey ideas, concrete and abstract,clear and sketchy. The arrays and the non-depictive elements like boxes and arrows serve to showrelationships and organi- zations, thematic, categorical, and more. on…

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