Many attempts to define depiction appeal to viewers' perceptual responses. Such accounts are liable to give a central role in determining depictive content to picture features responsible for the response, design. A different project is to give a compositional semantics for depictive content. Such attempts identify syntax: picture features systematically responsible for the content of the whole. Design and syntax are competitors. But syntax requires system, in how picture features contribute to content, that design does not. By examining John Kulvicki's semantics for basic depictive content, I argue that the relevant systematicity is absent from the pictorial realm.

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图片中的设计和语法

许多定义描述的尝试都吸引了观众的感知反应。此类帐户可能会在确定负责响应、设计的图像特征的描述内容方面发挥核心作用。另一个项目是为描述性内容提供组合语义。这种尝试识别句法：图片特征系统地负责整体的内容。设计和语法是竞争对手。但语法需要系统，在图片特征如何贡献内容方面，设计则不需要。通过考察约翰·库维奇的基本描绘内容语义学，我认为绘画领域缺乏相关的系统性。