Walton’s “category-dependent” idea has its merits. One of them is that the view is able to solve the problem of resemblance. The paradox states that it is strange for us to say a depiction of an object “resembles” the object in real life because what is depicted often looks nothing like the object in reality. Many would say that the painting of Mona Lisa resembles a woman, but the painting does not really look like a woman because no woman in real life is flat like the painting. Similarity, using the Hong Kong Identity Card as an example, we would say that the picture on the card resembles us. But, the picture does not really look like us as the picture is mainly in a greenish colour, and we certainly do look “green” in real life. How can we
