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    The failure of pictorial systems to meet notational crite... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Pictorial systems are not notational systems.

    The failure of pictorial systems to meet notational criteria thus reveals a limitation of Goodman's framework, not a substantive truth about the ontology of pictorial representation.

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    • 1.Goodman's notational criteria (finite vocabulary, syntactic/semantic determinacy) were designed for symbolic systems, not perceptual ones.
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    • 2.Pictures convey content through continuous resemblance, not discrete symbol-mapping, making notational analysis categorically inappropriate.
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    • 3.A framework's inapplicability to a domain suggests the framework is limited, not that the domain lacks the properties the framework seeks.
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    • 1.If pictures genuinely lack notational properties, that IS a substantive ontological fact about their representational nature, not framework failure.
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    • 2.Goodman's criteria reveal real differences between pictures and notations; dismissing this as 'framework limitation' abandons explanatory power.
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    • 3.A framework successfully identifies genuine structural distinctions between representation types, even if imperfectly formalized.
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    Key Terms

    Goodman(the statement opens with his name)
    Nelson Goodman was a 20th-century philosopher who created a famous puzzle about how we learn from experience and make predictions based on patterns we've observed.
    Notational criteria(Goodman's framework that may or may not apply to pictures)
    A set of rules or standards that determine what counts as a proper symbol system, created by Goodman to evaluate how things like writing and music notation work.
    Pictorial systems(examples being discussed in the statement)
    Ways of representing or communicating information through images, pictures, or visual marks rather than words.
    framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
    A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
    ontology (or ontological)(as used in metaphysics)
    The study of what actually exists; in this context, it refers to the question of whether moral facts exist as real things independent of human thought.

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