Practice question · True or false
An image can express negation as directly as a sentence can.
Hints
- Try to picture the absence of a horse.
- Any image you produce will show something rather than nothing.
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False
Why
False, and it is one of the sharpest limits of the analogy. A sentence can say there is no horse; a picture that tries will show an empty field, which is a picture of a field. Negation requires a device outside the image, a caption, a convention such as a crossed-out sign, or a narrative context.
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