Image, eidos, figura, pattern. How words help to recognize patterns and understand their reference and sense?

Abstract

The article explores the process of image recognition. The author analyses everyday language to identify correlattions between cognitive patterns of the image and a set of alternative etymons and cognitive patterns in Russian and other languages — Greek, Latin, English, German. Links between them form a vast conceptual space associated with image recognition. The author proposes a pattern of image recognition, which is, in its simplified form, unfolding from a quantum automaton, to its "saturation" due to the complexity of image recognition procedures. The author traces a transition from the processing of external objective signals through the construal of image configurations to the assignment of senses and meaning.

Keywords

• cognitive scheme
• image
• idea
• eidos
• morph
• figure
• pattern recognition
• sig-nal
• automaton
• objectivity
• subjectivity
• intersubjectivity
• metretics
• morfetics
• semiotics