Abstract

This paper develops an account of accuracy and truth in pictorial assertion. It argues that there are two ways in which pictorial assertions can be indirect: with respect to their content and with respect to their target. This twofold indirectness explains how accurate, unedited pictures can be used to make false pictorial assertions. It captures the fishiness of true pictorial assertions involving target-indirectness, such as true pictorial assertions involving outdated pictures. And it raises the question whether target-indirectness may also arise in linguistic assertion.

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Title
Truth and directness in pictorial assertion
Author
Lewerentz, Lukas 1 ; Viebahn, Emanuel 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Institut für Philosophie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany (GRID:grid.8664.c) (ISNI:0000 0001 2165 8627) 
2  Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Berlin, Germany (GRID:grid.14095.39) (ISNI:0000 0000 9116 4836) 
Pages
1441-1465
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Dec 2023
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
01650157
e-ISSN
15730549
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-023-09392-3
ProQuest document ID
2876776385
Copyright
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