"It is perhaps the most indirect method of observation imaginable, a non-representational form of observation mediated by supercomputer simulations".
Kay describes the final results in these processes as an "indirect method of observation; a non-representational form of observation mediated by simulations".
Since non-representational states lack truth-conditions, expressivists cannot explain the inferential relations among them in the usual way.
His careful readings of Shostakovich's Fourth and Fifth symphonies represent the clearest possible refutation of the idea that music is a non-representational art form.
The most obvious (and commonly drawn) analogy is with abstract art: primary shapes, blocked colours, modular non-representational arrangements.
Using elemental shapes, and primary colors to evoke a synesthetic, multi-sensory experience, and deploying non-representational and minimalist images, they sought to establish an unmediated, visceral, and emotional engagement with the viewer.
By contrast, feelings are some of the non-representational attitudes one can have towards the objects of the representations of our thoughts.
It is clear that non-representational are the key words.
Nicholson arrived at non-representational art as early as 1924.
"Lego went though a crisis and it had to transform itself from non-representational to representational.
And yet the mind automatically privileges the representational as being obscured by the non-representational.
