@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024},
author = {Cresswell,Maxwell J.},
subject = {Picture (Image)},
note = {II 132
Image/Representation/Photo/Photography/Counterfeiting/Cresswell: E.g. an old photograph of Wellington was causally caused by how things were in Wellington at this time.
Question: "What is it a picture of?": Here one can specify the causal history.
Counterfeiting: Solution: the counterfeit shows how the world should be, so that the picture is a picture of it.
Realization of an image: the set of possible worlds, in which that happens what the image shows.
Problem: E.g. House: is it empty or full of people?
False: to say that it is "either full or empty". - Solution: possible worlds which are as the picture shows. - ((s) Then the house can accommodate every number of people.)
II 185
Image/Representation/Howell/Cresswell: Thesis: one cannot simply say that an image represents something, but only that a subject understands the image at t in such a way that it represents that - more precisely, a 5-digit operator (time, person, circumstances, representation).
Elliott Sober: Thesis: pictorial representation is not so different from linguistic representation, as is often assumed.
>Representation, >Circumstances, >Situations, >Perception, >Time.},
note = { Cr I M. J. Cresswell Semantical Essays (Possible worlds and their rivals) Dordrecht Boston 1988 Cr II M. J. Cresswell Structured Meanings Cambridge Mass. 1984
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