-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.27 Apr 2004

1. 1 and 3 aren't the same thing. You can't have "a sculpture in the shape of his", but you can have "a sculpture in the shape of Ancient Greece".

2. This blabberwhig about 'Liberty' won't do at all. Saying that the Statue of Liberty is in the shape of Liberty doesn't somehow get around the fact that it's a statue of liberty. The statue of Liberty isn't concerned with accurately portraying a particular personification of liberty, but with portraying liberty. It could have succeeded in the former but failed in the latter, e.g. by portraying Liberty forced to gag on an enormous bronze glans.

Similarly, a statue of apprehension needn't concern itself with portraying a particular personification of apprehension ('Apprehension'); e'en if it did, that wouldn't be a guarantee that it was a statue of apprehension. It could be in any shape, as long as what it was in the shape of was taken to be a reification of, or otherwise represented, apprehension.