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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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