Geoff writes:
> Being scrupulous: Re your viewing a "sign" on a washroom door: I don't
> think you see a skirt, I think you see a shape which your mind goes to work
> on
> and construes as an indicator of "skirt"."
>
Geoff is commenting on this passge I wrote:
> I do take a stick figure with a skirt on a lavatory door as a sign the
> >lavatory is for women only. It's a drawing intended to occasion an idea in
> my head, and it does that.
>
Geoff is right. The stick figure doesn't actually have a skirt. There may be
other more complicated paintings when we can accept the likes of, "You notice
that the shield the figure on the right is holding has an insignia on it..."
But not here. I should have said we see a shape that our receiving and
processing apparatus associates with the shape of a skirt, and, by association,
we
infer the intention of the guy who created the drawing on the door was to make
us
think "woman".
>
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