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    It is not the case that Arts that employ natural signs are limited in what they can express

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    • 1.Natural signs can trigger cross-modal associations, as Herder argued in 'Sculpture' (1778): touch and vision share expressive content through embodied experience.
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    • 2.If natural signs activate overlapping sensory memories, a single medium can evoke the phenomenal qualities of multiple senses, expanding rather than limiting expressive range.
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    • 1.Lessing's own analysis of the Laocoön concedes that poetry can evoke visual imagery through temporal sequencing of descriptive signs, suggesting natural signs admit of medium-transcending use.
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    • 2.If natural signs can be combined sequentially or metaphorically to construct absent sensory content, the expressive limit belongs to the artist's technique, not to natural signification itself.
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    • 1.Natural signs are tied to specific sensory modes
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    • 2.Each art form can only employ the natural signs accessible through its particular sensory medium
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