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    Supports→Lessing's argument presupposes a strict homology between a medium's physical properties and its representational capacities, which Goodman's Languages of Art shows is not warranted.

    A photograph's causal relation to its subject differs physically from painting, yet both can represent identically—showing medium properties don't determine representational capacity.

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    Medium properties(as used in aesthetics and art philosophy)
    The specific physical characteristics of the material or tool used to create art—like paint and canvas for a painting, or light-sensitive film for a photograph.
    causal relation(Contrasted with ontological relations; complicated by the possibility of instantaneous or backward causation)
    A relation in which one event brings about or produces another, typically (but not always) with the cause preceding the effect
    determine(in epistemology)
    To figure out or decide what is definitely true based on evidence.
    representation(Schopenhauer's Kantian framework; the empirical/phenomenal side of reality)
    The world as it appears to a knowing subject; objects as they are given through the subject's cognitive forms
    representational capacity

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    (Leibnizo-Wolffian metaphysics and psychology as applied by Sulzer)
    The essential faculty of the human mind by which desire, will, and cognition are all understood as forms of representation.

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