# Pictorial Resemblance **Opening (not a real abstract):** I begin by clarifying the notion of resemblance and discussing John Hyman’s account of the ways in which pictures resemble their subject matter. Hyman’s account is the most extensive and carefully considered of those currently available and is a useful foil for my own account. The article is then devoted to two general arguments that support my position. First, I argue that pictures usually do resemble their subject matter, but that these resemblances are often different from those proposed by Hyman. By identifying and analyzing ways in which pictures do resemble their subject matter, I show that the character of pictorial resemblance depends on the constitution of our visual recognitional abilities. Since the particular constitution of these abilities is an empirical matter, these resemblances cannot be **Authors:** [[Newall]]