Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 95-104 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 24 Apr 2015 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |