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representamen
English
Etymology
From Latin repraesentamen
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???p.??.z?n.?te?.m?n/
- enPR: r?p'-r?-z?n-t??-m?n
- Rhymes: -e?m?n
Noun
representamen (plural representamens or representamina)
- (semiotics) A representation; a thing serving to represent something.
- 1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton (page 318)
- The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.
- circa 1897: Charles Sanders Peirce [aut.] and Justus Buchler [ed.], Philosophical Writings of Peirce, chapter 7: “Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs”, § 1: “What is a Sign? Three Divisions of Logic”, page 99 (from a circa 1897 manuscript (CP 2.227–9), first published in the 1940 selection The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings, and later reprinted sic in 1955 by Dover Publications, Inc., New York; ?ISBN, 9780486202174)
- A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.
- 1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton (page 318)
Quotations
- "I confine the word representation to the operation of a sign or its relation to the object for the interpreter of the representation. The concrete subject that represents I call a sign or a representamen." — C. S. Peirce, Lowell Lectures 1903, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, v. 1, paragraph 540. Eprint.
- "Possibly there may be Representamens that are not Signs." — C. S. Peirce, "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic", 1903, the Essential Peirce v. 2, pp. 272-3. Eprint.
- "It is the science of what is quasi-necessarily true of the representamina of any scientific intelligence in order that they may hold good of any object, that is, may be true." — C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers v. 2, paragraph 229. Eprint.
- Four instances of "representamina" used by John Deely, Four Ages of Understanding (2001, U of Toronto Press), p. 726, Google Books limited preview Eprint
Related terms
- represent
- representable
- representant
- representation
- representative
See also
- sign
References
- representamen in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
representamen From the web:
- representamen meaning
representation
English
Etymology 1
From Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentatio.
Alternative forms
- repræsentation (archaic)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
- IPA(key): /???p.??.z?n.?te?.??n/
Noun
representation (countable and uncountable, plural representations)
- That which represents something else.
- The act of representing.
- We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.
- (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
- (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
- (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- A theatrical performance.
Synonyms
- (image, form): likeness
Derived terms
- faithful representation (mathematics)
- representation space
- under-representation, underrepresentation
Related terms
- represent
- representable
- representamen
- representant
Translations
Etymology 2
re- +? presentation.
Alternative forms
- re-presentation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?.p??.z?n.?te?.??n/
Noun
representation (plural representations)
- (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
References
- representation at OneLook Dictionary Search
- representation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- representation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- representation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- repenetrations
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