Depiction and convention

Dialectica 62 (3):335-348 (2008)
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By defining both depictive and linguistic representation as kinds of symbol system, Nelson Goodman attempts to undermine the platitude that, whereas linguistic representation is mediated by convention, depiction is mediated by resemblance. I argue that Goodman is right to draw a strong analogy between the two kinds of representation, but wrong to draw the counterintuitive conclusion that depiction is not mediated by resemblance.

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10.1111/j.1746-8361.2008.01156.x

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reprint Blumson, Ben (2014) "Depiction and Intention". In Blumson, Ben, Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures, pp. 51-66: Open Book Publishers (2014)

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Languages and language.David K. Lewis - 2010 - In Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Arguing about language. New York: Routledge. pp. 3-35.
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Picture, Image and Experience: A Philosophical Inquiry.Robert Hopkins - 1998 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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