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The paper proposes a conceptual description of the nature of visual thinking and visual logic in the framework of philosophical knowledge. In this paper, we study the connection between visual thinking and visual logic on the conceptual level, as well as investigate the inclusion of this logic in the methods of visual explication of the nature of philosophical knowledge. The choice of visual problems of philosophical thinking and visual logic of philosophical constructs as a key subject of research is justified, on one hand, by the growing interest of scientists to the methodological and educational problems of the visibility of philosophical knowledge; on the other hand, by the presence of a certain conceptual gap in the concepts, justifying the methodology and logic of visualization. As a leading paradigm, the author uses the common ideological tenets of the concept of figurative thinking, according to which the standard conceptual thinking is always accompanied by a parallel process of building system of images, which in the framework of the imagination is a heuristic tool for effective cognitive work with intelligible dynamic objects, which under certain conditions can be expressed graphically become integral parts as cognitive models and new technologies of teaching philosophy. The conclusion is that the processes of visualization of philosophy, built on the basis of numerous methods are always associated primarily with the general logical errors, for example, hypostatization, i.e., objectification of abstract entities, and well-known theoretical and cognitive phenomena objects from the course of philosophy, for example, transcendental illusion, i.e., attempts to work on the basis of empirical visual experience with the phenomena of the beyond in relation to the world of intelligible essences. It also advocates the position that the essential difference between visual and formal logic is that the space-time structure of the visual designs vectors defines new theory, not vice versa. In the case of using visualizations, the formal structure of intelligible phenomena is determined by the structure of visual phenomena. Thus, the rules of the spatial relationship of logical objects are in part determined by the structure of elements of visual schematics. On one hand, these rules are determined by successful cases of building a philosophical models (image logic), which are expressed through metaphors; on the other, it is determined by the results of thought experiments with visual expression, formed of a plurality of links defined by synthesis of real graphics schemes, such as the following: Euler diagram, Venn diagrams, Veitch map, parenthesis circuit tree graphs (classification tree), logical square (square of opposition), semantic triangle, matrix table (for example, synchronous, diachronic and others.), mathematical formulas (e.g., functional dependencies), geometric figures, graphs, digital media and more.