Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art demonstrates that resemblance is neither necessary nor sufficient for representation, since any two objects resemble each other in some respect while denotation depends on learned symbolic systems.
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denotation(Goodman's theory of symbols and depiction)
A variety of reference; the relation in which a name stands to its bearer, a predicate stands to the members of its extension, or a portrait stands to its subject
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
resemblance(Ontology of universals and intelligibles)
A relation predicated on two subjects; a property belonging both to classes of intelligibles and to their individual members.