When reading parts of Philosophical Investigations and Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, one can observe that the problems concerning visual perception are given in the form of a dialogue between Wittgenstein and an unknown interlocutor. Upon further inspection it becomes evident that this interlocutor is Köhler, and we can recognise him by his ideas, or at least Wittgenstein’s own understanding and interpretation of some important gestalt psychology concepts. Such form of argumentation allows Wittgenstein not only to counter gestalt ideas without interruption, but it also gives him enough room to properly extrapolate the main objections and explain his own concepts which arise from them. Wittgenstein tries to break through the language barrier and reach the heart of the problem of gestalt and of visual perception as such. Continue reading The problem of “seeing” – Wittgenstein, Köhler, and visual perception