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    Challenges→Concerns about Goodman treating depiction as an ambiguous concept are misplaced.

    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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    Encodes(as used in philosophy of language)
    Contains or builds in as a fundamental part; when something encodes information, that information is built into its basic structure.
    Multiplies distinctions beyond what the phenomenon requires(as used in philosophical analysis)
    Creates more separate categories or divisions than are actually necessary to explain what we actually experience.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Pictorial experience(as used in philosophy of art and perception)
    The actual experience you have when you look at a picture—what it's like to see an image and recognize what it represents.
    phenomenology

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    The study of phenomena: what appears to us and its appearing

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