ABSTRACT

Toward the end of the previous chapter we saw two recognition theorists, Karen Neander and Crispin Sartwell, suggest that genuine resemblances between pictures and what they depict can play a large role in helping to explain what makes them pictorial. They were uneasy suggesting that recognition responses are all that matter, and fairly convinced that, in any given case, we could locate respects in which pictures resemble what they depict, and that these features help to explain why those pictures elicit the recognition responses that they do.