Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures

Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures

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It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example,...

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Main Author: Blumson, Ben (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Open Book Publishers 2014
Subjects:
Philosophy: aesthetics
pictorial representation
intentionality
depiction
representation
resemblance
language
pictures
Axiom
Chess
Formal language
Left- and right-hand traffic
Mona Lisa
Nominalism
Predicate (grammar)
Red Square
Tacit knowledge
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OAPEN Library: description of the publication
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