Concept

The Treachery of Images

Overview

painting by René Magritte depicting a smoking pipe

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Paul Valéry
• André Breton
• Alfred Korzybski
• Denis Diderot
• Les Nouvelles littéraires

Place in the tradition

Part of Platonism.

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