The lazy person's approach to depiction

• Autores: Rafael de Clercq
• Localización: Journal of aesthetics & art criticism, ISSN-e 1540-6245, ISSN 0021-8529, Vol. 73, Nº 2 (Spring 2015), 2015, págs. 95-104
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It has been argued (for example, by Nelson Goodman and John Hyman) that ‘depicts’ and similar terms such as ‘is a picture of’ and ‘represents’ are semantically ambiguous: sometimes they are two-place predicates expressing a relation, and sometimes they are not. This article takes issue with this claim and develops an alternative theory according to which the ambiguity in question is pragmatic rather than semantic.