Pictures, perspective and possibility

Philosophical Studies 149 (2):135 - 151 (2010)
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This paper argues for a possible worlds theory of the content of pictures, with three complications: depictive content is centred, two-dimensional and structured. The paper argues that this theory supports a strong analogy between depictive and other kinds of representation and the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance.

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