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> I can show you an actual, physical chair, or a picture of a chair. The first is not an illusion, while the second is.

If the picture of the chair is so good that one mistakes it for a real chair, yes, otherwise I wouldn’t classify it as an illusion.

On a tangential note, people enjoying this discussion might enjoy the beginning of chapter two[1] (or even the whole book) of Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics”[2].

[1]: https://rhetoricsuperhero.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/mcclou...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics



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