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Resemblance And Representation: An Essay In The Philosophy Of Pictures

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It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance.

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Cambridge : Open Book Publishers., 2014

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English

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9781783740741

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Philosophy / Aesthetics

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Ben Blumson

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Jemadi

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