“To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

—  Gilbert Ryle, book The Concept of Mind

Source: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. VIII: Imagination, (2) Picturing and Seeing

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