If abstruse painting titles were propositions, then_____?

Max Ernst - Some Animals are Illiterate (1973)

Do some philosophers debate painting titles as if they were matters of scientific understanding?  Or, better, are some of the subjects philosophers debate rather like the strange titles of fanciful paintings?

Such philosophers might be lost in phantom spaces of conceptual confusion that are rooted in the misapprehension of language; that is, they are confused as to the nature and the character of the subjects they are discussing. 

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