What does representamen mean?
Representamen means (semiotics) A representation; a thing serving to represent something..
Representamen
/ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.mən/ · noun
Meaning
(semiotics) A representation; a thing serving to represent something..
Example Sentences
A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.
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.
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Word Forms
- representamens
- representamina
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A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.
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