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    It is not the case that Concerns about Goodman treating depiction as an ambiguous concept are misplaced.

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    • 1.Schier's 'natural generativity' account shows depiction is unified by a single recognitional capacity, not two distinct semantic functions.
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    • 2.If depiction is grounded in a unified perceptual-recognitional mechanism, Goodman's two-question framework conflates semantic and taxonomic relations rather than resolving ambiguity.
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    • 1.Wollheim's 'seeing-in' theory treats depiction as a single intentional relation whose object is intrinsically typed, making the relational/non-relational distinction artificially imposed.
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    • 2.When the phenomenology of pictorial experience already encodes what kind of thing is depicted, splitting 'picture of' into two senses multiplies distinctions beyond what the underlying phenomenon requires.
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    • 1.The phrase 'picture of' admits two different interpretations: a relational sense (what a picture refers to) and a non-relational sense (what kind of picture it is).
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    • 2.Goodman is correct that with any picture there are always two distinct questions: what the picture represents, and what kind of picture it is.
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