Picture this: Image‐based Demonstratives
Dominic McIver Lopes · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2010
Pictures can be vehicles for demonstrative reference because they put their perceivers in a perceptual state of the kind that grounds demonstrative reference. This is a state that represents objects as lying at various distances and directions from a viewpoint. In particular, seeing objects in pictures grounds demonstrative reference to objects when it represents them as lying at various distances and directions from a viewpoint which overlaps with the perspective of the picture's perceiver. Depiction grounds demonstrative reference because picture perception engages motor vision.