(Intellectual current that "seeks the expression of the essential, eliminating the superfluous" DRAE)

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It is part of the strategies of analytical reasoning. Within these, and of great importance for image recognition, is that which allows finding the "frontier" of recognition. That is, the last reduction just before the image stops being identified as such. In principle it is an algorithm that relates two variables:

 

1)    The representation on the horizontal axis shows the process of image reduction or the perception that we make of this reduction. It begins with a reproduction very similar to reality (a photograph, for example), continues with the elimination of constituents until the moment arrives when continuing would imply entering the field of the symbolic, that is, of the need for agreement between emissary and receiver. We have called this border between “iconic resemblance” and “symbolic arbitrariness” the figurative limit (lim fig).

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2)    In an analogous way we can approach the figurative limit by increasing the abstraction in the reproduction of the image on the vertical axis.