In this paper the role of images in argumentative settings is analyzed from a cognitive angle. In particular, the proposal of this paper is to see visual argumentation as a specific form of extended and distributed cognition. In order to develop this idea, some of Wittgenstein’s insights are used to put evidence produced by research on temporal-spatial reasoning processes into philosophical perspective. Some contemporary argumentative analyses of visual argumentation are also discussed using commercial and political examples. The paper finishes with the notion of collective minds in order to specify the general idea of arguing with images as extended cognition.

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以图像作为扩展认知的争论

本文从认知角度分析图像在议论文中的作用。特别是，本文的提议是将视觉论证视为扩展和分布式认知的一种特定形式。为了发展这个想法，维特根斯坦的一些见解被用来将时空推理过程研究产生的证据转化为哲学观点。还使用商业和政治例子讨论了视觉论证的一些当代论证分析。本文以集体思想的概念结束，以说明将图像作为扩展认知进行争论的一般思想。