Not all literature, of course, is representational in this way: a sonnet may contain no characters at all and no action, consisting solely of an expression of feeling by some unspecified speaker.
If, however, everything is representational in the relevant way, then everything is computational (cf. Churchland and Sejnowski 1992, Shagrir 2006).
It is only the prediction that is representational in virtue of being evaluated.
As juxtapositions of science in a vessel of creationism, Montgomery's Virgin Mary's are representational in many forms.
Silberstein (2002), Sarkar (1992), Brigandt and Love (2012), and Hoyningen-Huene (1989) suggest another use of 'epistemic reduction': Reduction is epistemic iff its primary relata are representational in nature (and, hence, this use is equivalent to Van Gulick's use of 'representational reduction' in 2001).
"Fosse's is representational, a description of corrupt America in show-business terms".
The physical presence of queer space is representational, practical, and necessary in the future, so we should be rethinking the gay bar as we once knew it.
Lindqvist shows how the oldest characters are representational ("man" depicts a person in profile) and these remain part of today's language.
An author, as a painter, is free to choose a self-portrait style that may be representational or, in the case of, say Picasso, abstract or some combination thereof.
I attempt to depict an inner world of feeling or spirit and although there are representational elements in my work, I don't consciously look to forms from the external world to express my ideas.
