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Question #3: Walton’s Theory Walton begins his account by giving us a way to think about pictures and the objects in them. They are not ‘imitations’ of the objects in them, nor do they ‘stand for’ or ‘refer to’ said objects. They are merely ‘substitutes’ of the actual objects. He shows us that to point at a picture of a man, and say ‘that is a man’ is an absurd possibility, unless we establish a difference between a real world and a fictional world. Depending on whether an act falls in this fictional world or in the real world, that statement can be either true or false. Such a statement as ‘that is a man’ can be true “providing that in saying (a particular statement, one) is participating in the game of make-believe, speaking within the world of (the) game.” (Aesthetics, 291) By participating in the world of make-believe, Walton says, the participants usually imagine certain situations about themselves, allowed them to possibly experience what it might feel like to be in any given situation.
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