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    It is not the case that If pictures function through natural generativity rather than conventional symbol schemes, Goodman's notational criteria—designed for conventional systems—are simply inapplicable rather than genuinely falsified by pictures.

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    • 1.Even 'natural' pictures require learned interpretation (cultural codes, perspective conventions, symbol literacy), suggesting some conventionality remains unavoidable.
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    • 2.The inapplicability move is unfalsifiable: any counterevidence gets dismissed as category error, making the claim immunized against rational challenge.
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    • 3.If pictures truly operate outside notational logic, we cannot explain why they fail Goodman's tests—silence here suggests genuine incompatibility, not irrelevance.
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    • 1.Goodman's criteria (syntactic discreteness, semantic disjointness) presuppose arbitrary symbol-referent relations that pictures fundamentally lack.
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    • 2.Pictures causally resemble their objects through optical projection, not convention; inapplicability ≠ falsity when measuring different kinds of systems.
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    • 3.A system can represent without satisfying notational requirements—not all representation is notation, so pictures escape rather than violate Goodman's framework.
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