The appearance, which Descartes turned into the premise of the rational discourse adopted by Western civilization, makes us fall captive to representational explanations rather than to ontogenetic descriptions.
Expressions of the form 'a = b' are, therefore, mere representational devices.
In a tautology the conditions of agreement with the world--the representational relations--cancel one another, so that it does not stand in any representational relation to reality.
To justify our presence there the only thing demanded of us is that we shall have felt the representational impulse.
On the functional theory of ideas, their value does not rest at all upon their representational nature.
Ideas, according to the representational theory of knowledge, proved to be a poor medium for knowing reality in still another respect.
The representational image is a stimulus come to consciousness in the same way that a sensation is a stimulus come to consciousness.
Translated into terms of the judgment, this representational view means that the subject of the judgment must always be reality, while the predicate is an idea.
Its representational finesse made it an ideal medium for transcribing the Indian scene and the appearance at the court of European miniatures, themselves highly naturalistic, stimulated this character still further.
Both 3,j and 2,h however were made to sell, are more representational than most Mohave pottery paintings, and should be viewed with a degree of reserve, though I believe that their designs have basis in native usage.
The significance is wrapt up in the abstract spatial image and, therefore, so far from defining the essence of all art, including literature and music, it will not even cover dramatic representational painting.
Observers have commented that works considered highly modern in Bulgaria are completely traditional and representational to the Western eye.
The three-dimensional nature of sculpture and the classic Greek tradition of literal representation have made it difficult for contemporary sculptors to break away from the realistic representational requirements of the regime.
