1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel 30 Conception or picture-thinking works with materials from the same sensuous source.
1945 R. A. Knox vii. 90 One will depend more on picture-thinking, on crude, unanalysed notions, than another.
2001 Y. Wang (Afterword) 221 A vulgar person's understanding is characteristically picture-thinking..and his approach to reality is grasping.