2.17
What the picture must have in common with reality in order to be able to represent it after its manner—rightly or falsely—is its form of representation.
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- 2.171 The picture can represent every reality whose form it has. The spatial picture, everything spatial,…
- 2.172 The picture, however, cannot represent its form of representation; it shows it forth.
- 2.173 The picture represents its object from without (its standpoint is its form of representation),…
- 2.174 But the picture cannot place itself outside of its form of representation.