Gregory, D.I. (2020) Pictures, propositions, and predicates. American Philosophical Quarterly, 57 (2). pp. 155-170. ISSN 0003-0481
Abstract
Do representational pictures have propositional contents? The current paper argues that the characteristic contents of pictures are predicative rather than propositional: pictures characterise things as looking certain ways, and they thereby express properties of visual perspectives. The paper argues that the characteristic predicative contents of pictures are nonetheless able to feature in fully-fledged propositional contents once they are combined with contents of other suitable sorts. Various facts about communicative uses of pictures are then explained. The paper concludes by considering the bearing of its conclusions upon questions about the relationships between linguistic representation and pictorial representation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in American Philosophical Quarterly (APQ). Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2018 13:00 |
Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2021 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/48570845 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133505 |