Title
The lazy person’s approach to depiction
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Volume
73
Issue
2
First Page
95
Last Page
104
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
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.
DOI
10.1111/jaac.12141
Print ISSN
00218529
E-ISSN
15406245
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2015 The American Society for Aesthetics. Access to external full text or publisher's version may require subscription.
Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
De Clercq, R. (2015). The lazy person’s approach to depiction. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73(2), 95-104. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jaac.12141/abstract
