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

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