Complete the vocabulary of the lesson.
Goodman calls painting a ______ symbol system, because between any two shades there is another. Arts in which forgery is a meaningful category are ______, and those with a notation are ______. A photograph refers to its subject partly as an ______, because it is a physical trace of light.
Word bank: dense · autographic · allographic · index · icon · notational
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- The first blank is the property that rules out notation.
- The last blank is Peirce's term for reference by real connection.
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Goodman calls painting a dense symbol system, because between any two shades there is another. Arts in which forgery is a meaningful category are autographic, and those with a notation are allographic. A photograph refers to its subject partly as an index, because it is a physical trace of light.
The last blank sets up the ninth lesson of this unit. A painting resembles its subject and a photograph both resembles it and was physically caused by it, which is the difference that makes photographic evidence persuasive in a way painted evidence never was.
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