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Elkins, James – Visible Language, 1996
Argues that Wittgenstein's picture theory in "Tractatus" is, contrary to widespread assumptions, actually about pictures in several important senses, and that it offers a more rigorous and logical model of graphic meaning than many later theories. (TB)
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