How does this picture begin to explain the spatial character of visual and tangible representations? The key is that any of the earlier acquired percepts can, in rising, pull up over the limen all the others, to wit, in their ordered places next to or between each other, and this all the while that the act of representing remains “purely intensive” (SW VI: 91). Thus the spatiality of our (visual) representations is a function not of immediate sensation, but of an interior process that lends perception “spatial form”, namely those already present representations that reappear, governed by a law according to which each representation affects, in a regular way, the appearance of the others connected to it (SW VI: 91). Herbart writes: 