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Icon, index, and symbol in the visual arts

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Notes

  1. Whether homographic homonyms (“a light task,” “tolight a pipe”) should best be considered as one word or two is not in point.

  2. In an unpublished essay on cognitive meaning.

  3. See my “Pictorial truth,”Philosophical Studies, 4: 17-23 (1953).

  4. In Tempest's London 1709 edition of theIconologia, No. 20, pp. 5-6.

  5. Among the most important of these are odd-aspect icons and icons of unfamiliar objects.

  6. This remark must not be understood in any sense as a reduction of the pictorial presentation itself, let alone of its esthetic value, to the level of mere reference. These points are not in question here.

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Morgan, D.N. Icon, index, and symbol in the visual arts. Philos Stud 6, 49–54 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02333190

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