Resemblance and Misrepresentation

Abstract

Accounts of depiction often suggest accounts of other, related forms of representation. The range of forms covered varies from one account to another, but commonly includes the way sculpture represents, and sometimes representation in music, in the theatre and in mime. At least one approach to depiction may, prima facie, be extended to cover all these various ways of representing. That is the approach which makes central the notion of resemblance. A resemblance view may adapt to these various forms of representation by altering the respect in which it is claimed resemblance holds.