Vague Pictures as Pictures

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In this chapter I use the notions introduced above to lay out conditions of vagueness in pictures, the diversity of roles and scenarios and differences from vague linguistic predicates and representation.

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Notes

1.
Lopes [1], Kulvicki [2].
2.
See Wollheim [3].
3.
The significance of this issue in the history of science and philosophy of science derives from the methodological and cognitive significance of any distinction between observation and theory.
4.
For a metaphysical discussion of such entities as intentional objects, see Zalta [4]; for a consideration of their inclusion in the scope of perceptual representation, see Falguera and Peleteiro [5].
5.
Hopkins [6].
6.
This view is more restrictive than Goodman’s account of depiction or pictorial denotation.
7.
Peirce [7], Goodman [8], Lopes [1].
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Kulvicki [2, 9].
9.
Siegel [10].
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See also Lopes [1].
11.
Beyond the scope of resemblance characterizing the role of iconic visual signs, Peirce referred to signs causally traceable or inferable to their content as indices, and to the more arbitrary kind of conventions, symbolic signs.
12.
Goodman [8], Hopkins [6].

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Cat, J. (2017). Vague Pictures as Pictures. In: Fuzzy Pictures as Philosophical Problem and Scientific Practice. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 348. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47190-7_9

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