TY - JOUR
T1 - The lazy person’s approach to depiction
AU - DE CLERCQ, Rafael
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/1887
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929179999&doi=10.1111%2fjaac.12141&partnerID=40&md5=4359ea0e4d4d62b6103da495cc4396bc
U2 - 10.1111/jaac.12141
DO - 10.1111/jaac.12141
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
VL - 73
SP - 95
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
JF - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
SN - 0021-8529
IS - 2
ER -