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> I'm not sure I see the difference between a picture > depicting three snakes and a branch resembling three > snakes. A depictee can be the 'subject-matter' or the 'iconically signified': "This picture is about X" (subject matter) "This picture looks like X" (iconically signified) Texts usually don't iconically signify, but do have subject matter. Branches don't have subject matter, but do iconically signify. Pictures typically iconically signify their subject matter. So 'picture' is ambiguous.
OK. And you're saying that two pictures of three snakes can be pictures of different things, but two branches that each looks like three snakes must look like the same thing? But don't we want every picture of a snake (opaque sense) to have the same subject matter?
> > "Lex Luther is afraid of Superman but Lex Luther is not afraid
> > of Clark Kent."
> [...]
> > Lex Luther -fears LEka me ce'u ro me LA superman
>
> But this -fears is not the same ordinary {terpa}, unless
> terpa is polysemous. It is what I called {kairterpa}
That's why I didn't use {terpa}. But it's not {kairterpa},
though, is it, because {kairterpa}'s x2 would be {LEka ce'u
du LA superman}.
{kairterpa}'s x2 can be any property. I'm not sure I can
clearly see the difference between {le ka ce'u du la superman}
and {le ka ro me la superman cu me ce'u}, but if there is a
difference then one can fear things with one of the properties
or with the other. Both can be used with {kairterpa}. We could
also use {le ka ce'u prenrsupermanu}.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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