different between representant vs representamen

English

Etymology

From French représentant.

Noun

representant (plural representants)

1. (obsolete) A representative.

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Adjective

representant (not comparable)

1. Appearing or acting for another; representing.

Catalan

Etymology

From representar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?.p??.z?n?tant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?.p??.z?n?tan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.p?e.zen?tant/

Adjective

representant (masculine and feminine plural representants)

1. representative

Noun

representant m or f (plural representants)

1. representative

Verb

representant

1. present participle of representar

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French représentant

Noun

representant m (definite singular representanten, indefinite plural representanter, definite plural representantene)

1. a representative

Derived terms

• Representantenes hus
• stortingsrepresentant

Related terms

• representasjon
• representere

References

• “representant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French représentant

Noun

representant m (definite singular representanten, indefinite plural representantar, definite plural representantane)

1. a representative

Derived terms

• stortingsrepresentant

Related terms

• representasjon
• representere

References

• “representant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From representar.

Pronunciation

Noun

representant m (plural representants, feminine representant, feminine plural representants)

1. representative

Verb

representant

1. present participle of representar

Swedish

Etymology

From French représentant.

Pronunciation

Noun

representant c

1. representative, delegate
2. salesman

Declension

References

• representant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• representant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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)

1. (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.

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.