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    It is not the case that A resemblance theory that severs resemblance from perception loses explanatory contact with what distinguishes pictures from arbitrary symbols.

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    • 1.Resemblance relations exist objectively between images and objects regardless of whether anyone perceives them as similar.
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    • 2.Perception varies culturally and individually; tying resemblance to perception makes pictorial representation unstable and subjective.
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    • 3.Conventionalist accounts explain pictures adequately without invoking perception; visual literacy involves learned symbol-use, not direct resemblance.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Pictures causally affect human perception in ways arbitrary symbols don't; this perceptual difference needs explanation.
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    • 2.Resemblance is fundamentally relational between object and perceiver; divorcing it from perception removes its defining feature.
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    • 3.Without perception-based resemblance, we cannot distinguish why photographs represent content better than linguistic descriptions do.
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