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The intention of the present conceptual analysis, however, has to do not with theory of art but with ontology. Its first task, the criticism of traditional aesthetics, is only a stage on the way to acquiring a horizon that embraces both art and history. In our analysis of the concept of a picture we are concerned with two questions only. We are asking in what respect the picture (Bild: also, image) is different from a copy (Abbild)—that is, we are raising the problem of the original (Ur-bild: also, ur-picture). Further, we are asking in what way the picture’s relation to its world follows from this. Truth and Method I 2