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Depiction is achieved by things that answer convention D. This convention does not rule over all aspects of pictures, nor does it apply to pictures in their singularity--it rules in a general sense only. (I:4) D tells us to look for resemblances-a and to try to imaginatively introduce the modalities that are absent in pictures, and, in the end, the experiential dimension of the presentation or representation. Because pictures involve a reduction of modalities objects in pictures are perceived in a disembodied and indirect way. D does not constitute the resemblances-a involved--these form a natural (non-conventional) element within pictures without which no picture depicts. (Pace Goodman)