摘要: According to Arnheim, I have “claimed disproved the basic principle of gestalt theory”. That is misleading. What did say “that whole does not in any simple sense determine appearance its parts” (1981, p. 26), which Arnheim quotes, and bulk his paper seems illustrate. also said that “Either ‘whole determines parts’, or there no Gestalt theory” 263), he but appears misunderstand. He claims use my version (Fig. 1) Penrose figures (Penrose 8c Penrose, 1958) “to point out it displays contradictory percepts, compatible with unitary structure be imposed upon parts by whole”. do nothing sort: Nowhere address such questions as