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• Amodal Completion

  A class of phenomenal-organizational events identified by Kanizsa (1991) in which the perceptual system "completes" a partially occluded object — perceiving it as continuous behind the occluder despite the absence of any continuous distal…

• E. H. Gombrich

  Austrian-British art historian and philosopher of art (1909–2001). His Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960) develops a resemblance-and-schema account of pictorial representation: pictures represent…

• Figure-Ground Relationship

  The phenomenal-organizational structure first analyzed by Edgar Rubin (1915) and integrated into Gestalt theory by Koffka: within any visual field, some regions become figure (object-like, present, locatable, meaningful) while others becom…

• Gestalt Principles of Unification

  The set of perceptual-organizational factors — first identified by Wertheimer (1923) and developed across Gestalt psychology (Koffka, Köhler, Kanizsa, Metzger) — that determine how elements within the visual field are grouped into unified…

• Luca Taddio

  Italian philosopher at the University of Udine, working at the intersection of Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology, Italian Gestalt experimental phenomenology (Trieste school: Bozzi, Burigana, Massironi, Kanizsa), and the philosophy of pictorial…

• Nelson Goodman

  American philosopher (1906–1998), exponent of analytic aesthetics and constructive nominalism. His Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1968; 2nd ed. 1976) develops a denotational/symbolic theory of pictorial representatio…

• Phenomenal Invariants

  Taddio's central technical term in Art and Psychology (2025): the relationship between dependent and independent variables — the conditions experimental phenomenology has identified as prerequisites for the appearance of a given phenomenon…

• René Magritte

  Belgian surrealist painter (1898–1967). His paintings — especially Le faux miroir (1928), La condition humaine (1933), Le Jockey perdu (1948), Golconde (1953), Le Blanc-seing (1965), L'idée (1966), Le pèlerin (1966), Paysage de Baucis (196…

• What does Taddio (2025) actually contain on the science secrète / tacit-Gestalt identification?

  > Status note (2026-05-07). This question page was written when claims#science-secrete-stiftung-chiasm was live. The claim's status changed from live to contested on 2026-05-05 (Phase 8 eighth run; user-adjudicated Option γ — the α–δ split…