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REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 847-887Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-020-00513-6
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- NSF [IGERT DGE 0549115]
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The semantics of pictorial representation should explain how pictures are associated with the contents they express, utilizing perspectival arrangements of three-dimensional objects and properties to form pictorial spaces.
A semantics of pictorial representation should provide an account of how pictorial signs are associated with the contents they express. Unlike the familiar semantics of spoken languages, this problem has a distinctively spatial cast for depiction. Pictures themselves are two-dimensional artifacts, and their contents take the form of pictorial spaces, perspectival arrangements of objects and properties in three dimensions. A basic challenge is to explain how pictures are associated with the particular pictorial spaces they express. Inspiration here comes from recent proposals that analyze depiction in terms of geometrical projection. In this essay, I will argue that, for a central class of pictures, the projection-based theory of depiction provides the best explanation for how pictures express pictorial spaces, while rival perceptual and resemblance theories fall short. Since the composition of pictorial space is itself the basis for all other aspects of pictorial content, the proposal provides a natural foundation for further pictorial semantics.
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