Sentence examples for as things represented from inspiring English sources

But in "there are numbers" as used by the platonist, numbers function as things represented.

Sometimes, Yablo says, numbers — and other entities used as mere representational aids, but sometimes they also function as things represented.

And in "the number of even primes is zero", as a nominalist can be envisaged to use it when doing philosophy, saying something that given her philosophical views is true, they function both as representational aids ("number") and as things represented ("even prime").

That is, they do not move us directly through projections on our motor centers independently of our desire for the things represented (as is the case with behavioral tics).

He saw the term "idea" as ambiguous: taken materially, it has formal reality, as a mode of the mind; taken in another sense, it has objective reality, as the thing represented.

Sometimes your things represent you as a person especially your notebooks.

All things representing other things.

Simple, large things representing simple, crude ideas.

Scotus's implemented Henry's distinction and treated the thing that does the representing as a mental act or concept, which ontologically speaking is an accident of the mind, and the thing represented as the form of the object thought about (which is why this is still a conformality account of mental representation).

If you want to add several things that represented you as a small child, add it.

Photographs crop and contain ­reality, but they are as much about ­focus as the things they represent.